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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Quezon City, Metro Manila

venteenth Congress
First Regular Session

80

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by the Honorable Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

EXPLANATORY NOTE

William Golangco built the forty-five (45) kilometer Gapan-San
Fernando-Olongapo Road (GSO Road), now called the Jose Abad
Santos Avenue (JASA), connecting four provinces of Central Luzon
This highway. which significantly cut travel time from Nueva Ecija
to Bataan, passing through several communities of Pampanga and
Zambales, has since become a major thoroughfare for residents of
these four provinces. More significantly, GSO Road/JASA, since its
construction, has played a key role in reviving the economies of old
inner towns of Pampanga such as Bacolor, Guagua and Lubao.

Throughout the construction period, from 1974-1979.
Golangco hired hundreds of local residents for various works,
particularly those from the towns of Guagua and Lubao. He also
established a construction depot at the intersection of GSO Road/
JASA and the San Antonio, Guagua-Floridablanca Road, near the
border of Bgys. San Antonio and Jose Abad Santos-Siran, all in
Guagua. The depot became a popular landmark among the locals
who referred to the ‘a as “Golangco”. The appellation remained
even after the depot ceased to operate and has gained historical
prominence due to universal acceptance not only by local residents
but also by the general commuting public. Local officials, heeding
the public clamor to officially name the intersection after Golangco,

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as it has always been referred to since the late 1970’s, passed
Resolution 46-S-2014 of the Sangguniang Bayan of Guagua,
naming the said intersection as the William Golangco Junction.

In recognition of the vision and dedication of the late
contractor William Golangco whose construction of the Gapan-San
Fernando-Olongapo Road/JASA directly gave jobs to hundreds of
Kapampangans and created thousands more of new livelihood
opportunities, and whose efforts continue to bring innumerable
benefits to the people of Guagua and Lubao in Pampanga as well as
other areas traversed by JASA, I ask my colleagues of this
Seventeenth Congress to support this legislative measure renaming
the San Antonio Guagua- Floridablanca National Road as William
Golangco Road and officially recognizing the intersection of JASA
and San Antonio-Floridablanca Road in Guagua, Pampanga as the
William Golangco Junction.

GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

Seventeenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 3580

Introduced by the Honorable Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

AN ACT NAMING THE SAN ANTONIO, GUAGUA-
FLORIDABLANCA NATIONAL ROAD AS THE “WILLIAM
GOLANGCO ROAD” AND THE INTERSECTION OF JOSE ABAD
SANTOS AVENUE AND SAN ANTONIO, GUAGUA-
FLORIDABLANCA ROAD AS THE WILLIAM GOLANGCO
JUNCTION

Section 1. The San Antonio, Guagua -Floridablanca Road
starting from its intersection with the Guagua-Lubao Road in
Barangay San Antonio, Guagua up to the border of Bgy. Jose Abad
Santos-Siran, Guagua and the town of Floridablanca, Pampanga is
hereby named the William Golangco Road.

Section 2. The intersection of the Jose Abad Santos Avenue
and the San Antonio, Guagua-Floridablanca Road in Guagua,
Pampanga is hereby officially recognized as the William Golangco
Junction.

Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately upon its
approval.

Approved.