SAN JUANICO BRIDGE 

BEFORE AND AFTER 
Location: Santa Rita Samar and Tacloban,Leyte Visayas area 
Wayback 1970’s

DID YOU KNOW?! 
*San Juanico Bridge also known as Philippine-Japan Friendship Highway Bridge and Marcos Bridge 
*The bridge was designed by Arch-shaped truss 
*San Juanico Bridge is a part of the Pan- Philippine Highway and stretches from samar to Leyte 
*Constructed during the Marcos administration using Japanese Official Development Assistance (ODA) loans
*It was also Dubbed “The bridge of love” Touted as President Ferdinand Marcos “birthday gift” to his wife Imelda (who was known as the Rose of Tacloban)- It was of the high visibility foreign-loan projects initiated by Marcos during the run up to the 1969 president election campaign 
*The San juanico bridge Completed four years later, it was inaugurated on July 2, 1973 (Imelda Marco’s birthday)
*San Juanico bridge are The longest bridge spanning a body seawater in the philippines with the length of 2.162 kilometers (1.34mi) and width of 10.620 meters supported by 43 spans 
*The Bridge it shows initials (L&S) if you look at aerial view, you can make out a shape of the letter L on the part near Leyte And S on the part going to Samar province 
*The $21.9million worth of bridge was completed within four years of construction 
*In 1981, Directed by Carlo J. Caparas Hari ng Stunt, shoot the most daring stunt done by DANTE VARONA and a brave action star jumped off (San Juanico Bridge) to prove that he was kung of stunts in the philippines 
*The bridge was slightly damaged by typhoon Haiyan (Super typhoon Yolanda) in November 2013 but was quickly repaired and reopened within the month
*In January 2018, Samar Governor Sharee Ann Tan proposed to install LED lights in the bridge to boost tourism between leyte and samar islands and the lightning project is projected to be completed in November 8, 2018 (in time for the fifth anniversary of the onslaught of typhoon haiyan in eastern visayas)
*The San Juanico Bridge It has become an iconic tourist attraction acknowledged as “Part of the identity of people in Samar and Leyte”