Photo of the Rosario to Bolbok Road [1926 BPW Annual Report]
By the 1920s, motorized transportation had well and truly arrived as well in the Philippines. Hence, among the aspects of public works that the American colonial government was kept busy with was the construction of roads, something that the previous Spanish colonial government did not really have an appetite for.
In Batangas, the Bureau of Public Works was also constructing roads, even in offbeat places away from the main travel routes from the capital of Batangas to Manila. These achievements in construction were subsequently compiled in an annual report1, from which the digital picture below has been extracted.
For instance, in the photograph below, a portion of the 22.1 kilometer road from Rosario to Bolbok, the latter presumably in the town of Batangas. This road would have been beneficial not only to motorized transportation but even animal-driven carts, which were still aplenty in that period.
Notes and references:
1 “Bureau of Public Works Annual Report,” published 1926 in Manila by the Bureau of Public Works.
In Batangas, the Bureau of Public Works was also constructing roads, even in offbeat places away from the main travel routes from the capital of Batangas to Manila. These achievements in construction were subsequently compiled in an annual report1, from which the digital picture below has been extracted.
For instance, in the photograph below, a portion of the 22.1 kilometer road from Rosario to Bolbok, the latter presumably in the town of Batangas. This road would have been beneficial not only to motorized transportation but even animal-driven carts, which were still aplenty in that period.
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1 “Bureau of Public Works Annual Report,” published 1926 in Manila by the Bureau of Public Works.