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Article: White elephant in Bohol now a new tourist attraction.(Provincial News)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- December 30, 2008
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LOBOC, Bohol -- This tourist town has a new attraction.
Not a new structure - nor a new discovery - but just putting to good use an erstwhile white elephant that was once described by then Public Works and Highways Secretary Gregorio Vigilar as "a monument to stupidity" that best exemplifies an unsavory phenomenon of "how not to build a bridge."
Sticking out like a sore thumb in Poblacion, Loboc, 24 kilometers northeast of the capital, Tagbilaran City, the Loboc Jumbo Bridge also bagged an infamous kalabasa (squash) award for being so despicably expensive and yet, cannot be used as intended because it has not been completed - until now.
Rather ...