The Guam Governor, Felix Camacho, says a new contract with a transportation engineering company Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc. marks the beginning of the largest public works project in the history of Guam.
The Pacific Daily News reports that the local government hired the company to bring in the management, technical and other skills for massive road and other public works projects that will cost almost 200 million US dollars next year alone.
The Department of Public Works hopes this will convince the US Pentagon to allow the Guam government to take on the 1.25-billion US dollar road project being proposed as part of the US military buildup on Guam.
The planned road would link Andersen Air Force Base in northern Guam and the Navy Base in the southern part of the island.
