Impeached Vice President Sara Z. Duterte expressed her irritation on an advertisement on a television reportedly at the airport as she was on her way to visit Melbourne, Australia on June 22, 2025, said the San Juanico bridge was not a tourist spot. She asked the crowd, “Do you even know how long the San Juanico Bridge is? 2.6 kilometers. I was so irritated. How can a 2.6-kilometer bridge be considered a tourist “I was extremely irritated with one part of the ad. It said the San Juanico Bridge in Tacloban is a tourist spot,” she noted. The first statement regarding the length of the San Juanico Bridge as 2.6 kilometers is clearly a too long guess as it is more than the recorded length of 2.16 kilometers.
She then compared San Juanico Bridge to a bridge in China, which she claimed connects China to Zengcheng to Macau to Hongkong which she claimed to be 264 kilometers long, suggesting that such infrastructure deserves to be called a “modern tourist attraction. A verification on the map of bare that the said route does not show any bridge connecting the places she mentioned. One may travel to the said places first travel from mainland China to Zengcheng, likely by land, then take another transportation from Zengcheng to Macau, and finally travel from Macau to Hong Kong through the most common route between Macau and Hong Kong is by ferry. There is no such bridge along the route she mentioned, this is her second too long guess.
While there is no 264-kilometer bridge in China, she was likely referring to the Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge, which is a 164.8 kilometers long viaduct on the Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway. It is the longest bridge in the world since its designation by Guinness World Record in 2011. For her to claim that that the bridge is 264 kilometers long appears as her third too long guess at 264 kilometers as it is when in reality it is only 164.8 kilometers.
The statements of the impeached vice president drew a strong from Tingog Partylist Representative Jude Acidre who pointed out that the bridge is “more than just a tourist attraction,” but also a vital part of the Eastern Visayas’ identity. “It’s more than just an iconic photo spot. It’s more than a ribbon of steel and concrete stretching across the San Juanico Strait,” the lawmaker said through his social media account on June 23 in retort to the impeached vice president’s statement questioning the bridge’s promotion as a tourist site. Other citizens also reacted to the impeached vice president who statements appear as mere too long guess.
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