Filipino artists whose works were featured on our daily random thread covers.
The initial reaction by people to this article based on most headlines is substandard yung bridge. Buti na lang ABS-CBN was, surprisingly, responsible with their title.
My dad lives in Tuguegarao (the capital city of where the bridge resides) and it's a real shithole when I visited in 2015. Napaka-backwards and rural. If the bridge was built around 1979 in which I imagine it would have been more desolate, then for sure it would collapse with three 50-ton (combined) trucks passing over it.
Some provinces in the so-called Solid North remain undeveloped, and instead are ruled over by your average political dynasties who decide nearly everything, including business investments and infrastructure projects, for their personal advantage.
That the bridge was then built for smaller 10-wheeler trucks of its time, but not to absorb vehicles and loads greater than its design weight... and should have been replaced not so long ago if it weren't for the emasculation of provincial and regional DPWH offices becoming beholden to those dynasties.
