Old Junction Layac-Balanga-Mariveles Port Road Roman Superhighway

Table F.2 shows the figures of national transportation roads and bridges in kilometers and in three classifications- concrete, asphalt, and unpaved. It can be seen in the table/graph above the logical trend between figures of national concrete and asphalt road. From year 2011- 2014, national concrete roads registered 11% reduction while the national asphalt road increased in length by 18%. On the contrary, in year 2014-2015, national concrete roads posted a percent increase of 4.7% while national asphalt roads displayed a percent decrease of 4.5%. One of the contributory factors for year 2011-2014 trend between national concrete roads and national asphalt roads was the effort of the government to continuously repair the assessed damaged parts through the overlaying of those parts into asphalt. As preventive measure, such alteration not only averted the deterioration of the road’s damages but also maintained the usual mobility of the vehicles. As expected, records for year 2014-2015 between the aforementioned types of road demonstrated reversed direction due to the increasing number of vehicles and normal depreciation of public goods’ capacity through time. Nevertheless, since conversion into asphalt roads are only for preventive measure, any upward trend in the future for this type of road may also encourage upgrading of such into concrete as it is more economical and asphalt pavement may also lost its plasticity during wet season. On the other hand, figures of the national unpaved roads show fluctuating trend with percent decrease of 34.57% from year 2011-2014 and percent increase of 1.48% from year 2014-2015. The sudden increase, although minimal, can be attributed to the creation of new paths from places with non- existent roads or due to the conversion of local/provincial roads into national roads. Even so, significant decrease of national unpaved roads should be projected/targeted in order to fulfill the goal of the government on the conversion of all national unpaved/ gravel roads by year 2016. Old Junction Layac-Balanga-Mariveles Port Road This road which is parallel to its coastline is a two lane road comprised of 43.221 km. concrete and asphalt road pavement. This road passes through urban area of 8 municipalities and one city to major industries, processing/manufacturing petroleum, petrochemicals, plastic and explosives. Roman Superhighway (Bataan Expressway) With a total length of 57.255 km., a road parallel to the old road from Hermosa leading to the Freeport Area of Bataan (FAB) was constructed in support to the economic zone and the province as a whole. This is the Bataan Expressway formerly Roman Superhighway. Gov. J.J Linao Road Another important road link in the province is the Balanga-Bagac-Morong road which cut across the central part of the province connecting the eastern and western portion of the province’s trunk line loop road from the municipality of Pilar passing through the municipality of Bagac to municipality of Morong. The road length is 54.631 km. This road leads to tourist destinations in Bagac and Morong as well as to the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP). .

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