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[leofriends]

Citra to build P25-b road link in January

By Lailany P. Gomez | Posted on Nov. 26, 2012 at 12:01am | 541 views

San Miguel Corp.-led Citra Metro Manila Tollways Corp. said it will start building the North Luzon and South Luzon expressways linkage in January next year, once Malacañang gives its final approval of the project.

CMMTC chief executive Shadik Wahono said as far as the company was concerned the “common alignment was no longer an issue,” referring to the five-kilometer common road that it had to build with Metro Pacific Investment Corp., which was pursuing its own NLEX-SLEX connector road.

CMMTC proposed to construct a P25.4-billion 14-kilometer, six-lane tollway that will have exits in Quirino, Manila and Plaza Dilao, Aurora Boulevard, E. Rodriguez Ave., Quezon Boulevard, Sgt. Rivera, and Balintawak in Quezon City.

MPTC, on the other hand, seeks to construct a 13-kilometer NLEX-SLEX Connector Road for P22.95 billion. The connector road would run along the tracks of state-owned Philippine National Railways.

Wahono said CMMTC was willing to shoulder the cost of constructing the common segment and have the Metro Pacific repay CMMTC for the expense.

“We have to start in January. What we’re waiting for is the final approval of President Benigno Aquino III. If, say, tomorrow he gives his go-signal, we will start the construction the following day. We want to get this project started within the current administration,” Wahono said.

“You cannot prevent anybody to connect to you as long as their connection is not problematic. We put everything on the table and we are willing to complete everything. They can reimburse what we spent,” he said.

Wahono, however, said a 50-50 revenue sharing on the common segment would not be feasible. “It cannot be 50-50 because everything depends on the traffic. If we do 50-50, we’ll be on the negative,” he added.

Metro Pacific earlier expressed hope the discussion on the common segment would be completed by mid-December this year.

President Aquino early this year gave the two proponents the go signal to simultaneously construct the two separate tollway projects that are expected to ease the traffic congestion in Metro Manila and speed up transportation to and from the provinces.

MTPC earlier said it was willing to partner with CMMTC to co-fund the P7 billion, five-kilometer common alignment from Buendia in Makati City to Polytechnic University of the Philippines in Sta. Mesa, Manila.

The original proposal was for a three-kilometer common road from Buendia to Plaza Dilao in Paco, Manila.

“Our intention is to be treated as co-equal in the project. That part is the most profitable part that’s why we wanted to be treated as co-equal,” MPTC president Ramon Fernandez said.

The National Economic and Development Authority, however, has yet to approve the Swiss challenge for the two projects. A Swiss challenge is required since the projects are an unsolicited proposals.

http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/...nk-in-january/

LET THE CITRA GO!!!

[krrra]

what will be the image design of the pending project at buendia intersection?

[Transporter89]

post ko nalang dito walang thread for NAIA expressway

http://www.philstar.com/business/201...essway-project
SM, MVP team up for NAIA Expressway project
By Zinnia B. Dela Peña (The Philippine Star) | Updated December 14, 2012 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines - The SM Group of retail magnate Henry Sy Sr. will team up with Metro Pacific Tollways Corp., led by Manuel V. Pangilinan, for the P15.5-billion expressway project linking three terminals of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) with each other and to the Entertainment City.

SM Investments Corp. (SMIC) chief finance officer Jose T. Sio said they would form a consortium with the Pangilinan camp to participate in the bidding for the four-lane elevated expressway which would provide connectivity to NAIA Terminals 1, 2 and 3.

The NAIA expressway, will start from Sales St. going to Andrews Ave., Domestic Rd. and which ends on Roxas Blvd., is the third project lined up for bidding under the government’s flagship Public-Private Partnership (PPP) program.

The SM Group, through Belle Corp., is one of four groups that were granted license to operate a casino in the ambitious Entertainment City project along Roxas Blvd.

SMIC, the Sy family’s investment holding company, is involved in five core businesses – retail merchandising, mall operations, property, banking, and hotel and leisure.

The proposed 9.97-kilometer expressway project aims to provide fast and reliable access to the NAIA terminals and Pagcor Entertainment City by easing traffic situation in the vicinity while boosting economic activities, particularly on tourism. It will also link the South Luzon Expressway/Skyway to the Manila-Cavite Toll Expressway and both Roxas and Macapagal Blvd.

When completed, travel time from Skyway to NAIA Terminal 1 will be reduced from the average 24 minutes to eight minutes, thus providing comfort to some 80,000 daily travelers.

Among the other companies that expressed interest to bid for the project include San Miguel Corp., DM Consunji Inc., Ayala Corp.,

Macquarie Capital Securities, EGIS Projects, M/S IL and FS Transportation Network, Megawide Construction, EEI Corp, Alloy MTD Philippines, J.E. Manalo Construction, Daelim Philippines and C.M. Pancho Construction.

The government originally set the bidding in June this year but decided to move it to January next year to give interested parties more time to finalize their bids.

[leofriends]

DOTC steps in MPTC-Citra row over connector road, aims for project completion before 2015

By: Darwin G. Amojelar, InterAksyon.com
December 18, 2012 5:55 PM

MANILA - The government has stepped in to break the impasse between the private proponents of two separate tollway projects that would help speed up travel time to and from the north and south of Metro Manila.

"The government will decide on the terms of the common alignment. We will choose between the 50-50 or a modification of that option because it looks like both parties would not agree. Before Christmas there will be a decision because the objective here is to have it started and we want it done before APEC 2015, without any further delay," Transport chief Joseph Emilio Abaya said on Tuesday.

"One proposal is that they will construct the road with a consensual contractor agreed upon. They will initially spend solely, but eventually when the connector connects the MNTC or the other party will contribute 50 percent to the cost. They will split the revenues 50-50. After three-year period of operations and the traffic stabilizes, the revenues of the common alignment will be split in according to the three-year traffic," Abaya said, referring to the proposal of San Miguel Corp-backed Citra Metro Manila Tollways Corp.

Abaya said the other proposal is both parties split 50-50 from the start of the construction of the common alignment.

The government expects to start the construction of the two expressways linking North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) to the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) by next month.

"Whatever the government will decide, we will also inform the President, and whatever the government will decide we will come out with the STOA of the Citra and SMC franchise," Abaya said, referring to the Supplemental Toll Operations Agreement.

Metro Pacific Tollways Corp (MPTC) and Citra earlier set December 15 as the deadline to conclude an agreement on the common alignment.

Citra and MPTC are pursuing separate tollway projects that would link NLEX to SLEX. Their projects however will share a 5-kilometer stretch of road from Buendia Avenue in Makati City to the Polytechnic University of the Philippines campus in Sta. Mesa, Manila.

The original proposal was for a 3-kilometer common road from Buendia to Plaza Dilao in Paco, Manila.

Citra Manila runs the SLEX, while MPTC unit Manila North Tollways Corp operates the NLEX.

MPTC plans to construct the 13-kilometer NLEX-SLEX Connector Road for P22.95 billion. The project is expected to start early next year and would create 8,000 jobs. The connector road would run along the tracks of state-owned Philippine National Railways.

The National Economic and Development Authority has yet to approve the Swiss challenge for the project. A Swiss challenge is required since the project is an unsolicited proposal.

Citra Manila's project calls for a P25.4 billion 14-kilometer, six-lane tollway that will have exits in Quirino and Plaza Dilao in Manila; and in Aurora Boulevard, E. Rodriguez Avenue, Quezon Boulevard, Sgt. Rivera, and Balintawak in Quezon City.

InterAksyon.com is the online news portal of TV5, which along with MPTC, is chaired by Manuel V. Pangilinan.

http://www.interaksyon.com/business/...on-before-2015

[leofriends]

Govt steps in on NLEX-SLEX connector road issue

December 18, 2012 7:51pm

The government has decided to interject between the two proponents in the North Luzon expressway and South Luzon expressway connector roads project after they failed to come up with a unified proposal on the common area.

“They just couldn’t agree so the government will come in and decide for the group. They will follow what the government will decide,” said Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya in an interview Tuesday.

At present, the government is still studying schemes that would cover the common area of the proposed connector roads, Abaya said.

The roads will be constructed by the unit of diversified conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC) and First Pacific’s Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC). The government has given SMC’s Citra Metro Manila Tollways Corp. and MPIC until December 15 to come up with a unified proposal on the common area.

Under Citra's proposal, the company would initially fund the construction of the common area using a consensual contractor. Once the road connects, the other proponent would have to pay half of the total cost.

Under the proposal, the proponents of both connector roads would initially split 50-50 of the total revenues, but on the third year once the traffic have stabilized the share of the revenues would depend on the traffic.

The other MPIC proposal calls for a 50-50 share in the total cost of construction of the common area as well as a 50-50 split in revenues regardless of traffic volume.

Abaya said there will be a decision on the scheme that would be used before Christmas.
“We will make sure that the connection on the common alignment will not be prejudicial to anybody,” he said.

The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) wants the construction of the connector roads to start early next year so that the infrastructure would be completed in time for the Leaders Meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), which the Philippines will be hosting in 2015.

Both MPTC and Citra should have a common area spanning five kilometers from Quirino in Manila up to Nagtahan in Sta. Mesa in Manila crossing the Pasig River.

President Benigno Aquino III has decided to let both MPTC and SMC to build their own connector roads to be completed by 2015. The road projects would connect Makati City where the SLEX ends to Caloocan and Balintawak where NLEX starts. The project cost is placed at P45 billion.

Linking NLEx and SLEx has been in the pipeline since 2010, when MPTC submitted an unsolicited proposal to build a 13.4-kilometer, four-lane elevated road connecting the two over the railway from Makati to Caloocan.

Citra and MPTC met several times to resolve the issue pertaining to the Buendia to Sta. Mesa Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) segment of Citra’s Skyway Stage 3 to which the MPTC’s Connector Road would connect.

Citra would allow MPIC’s Connector Road to connect to the Skyway Stage 3 at the Sta. Mesa PUP area even if MPIC acknowledged and stated that it does not want to jeopardize Citra-Philippine National Construction Corp’s right over the Buendia to Sta. Mesa PUP segment which is part of the original alignment of the Skyway project approved by the government in 1995.

Since the Skyway Stage 3 is an extension of the already existing Skyway Stages 1 and 2, Citra would start construction at the Buendia-end of Skyway Stage1. — KBK, GMA News

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story...tor-road-issue

[ISwitch]

may balak din ba sila i-extend yung skyway up to bacoor? pagmayron yan tyak gagagnda talaga pinas lalo dadami torista. dapat yung mga real estate developers sa subrang dami sa mga areas na yan, pondohan nila yan. di effective yung lrt extension, lalo lang maghihirap mga taga-cavite

[leofriends]

Early construction of Skyway 3 best Xmas gift to commuters — DoTC chief

Written by Ed Velasco
Thursday, 20 December 2012

There’s a big possibility that construction of Skyway 3 will proceed by January 2013 if project proponents agree on the terms for the common alignment of the 17-kilometer elevated road, according to Department of Transportation and Communications (DoTC) Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya said.

Abaya said negotiations for the common alignment of the project are now on the final stages and might wrap up anytime from today until Christmas.
Many observers say if the negotiations on common alignment will be finished on or before Christmas, it could serve as the best holiday gift for Filipino commuters.

An estimated 200,000 to 300,000 vehicles are expected to pass by Skyway 3, according to the DoTC.

“We are finalizing the decision on the common alignment,” Abaya, a graduate of US Naval Academy class of 1988, explained to The Daily Tribune in an exclusive interview.

“We hope to finish the agreement before Christmas break,” Abaya explained.
It’s only five days before Christmas and this is the reason why DoTC personnel in charge of the negotiations are working double time to finish the talks.

The common alignment is a five-kilometer stretch of Skyway 3 from Gil Puyat Ave. to Polytechnic University of the Philippines in Sta. Mesa, Manila.
In this portion, the two elevated roads will only have one path, thus causing the travellers to be confused if they are passing by Skyway 3 or the South Luzon Expressway-North Luzon Expressway (Slex-Nlex) connector.

Although Citra and San Miguel Corp. agreed to shoulder the construction expenses for the alignment, Citra disagreed that the tolls on the portion of the road be evenly divided between them and Metro Pacific Tollways Corp., the proponent of Slex-Nlex connector.

Skyway 3 will pass by mostly along Edsa up to Samson Road in Caloocan while Slex-Nlex connector will pass by the railways of Philippine National Railway Co.

Skyway 3, a P24-billion project, is under the DoTC while the connector, which costs P17 billion, is under the Department of Public Works and Highways.

Both projects are under the public-private partnership (PPP) and were first announced on the first few days of the Aquino administration in July 2010.
Since those days, however, none among the seven big ticket PPP projects were built, except for the cheapest Slex-Daang Hari, which only costs around P1 billion.

http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.p...%94-dotc-chief

[leofriends]

Government steps in on connector road issue

By Lawrence Agcaoili (The Philippine Star) | Updated December 20, 2012 - 12:00am

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“Before Christmas there will be a decision on the issue. We will make sure that the connection on the common alignment will not be prejudicial to anybody,” Abaya clarified.

He pointed out that the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) wants the construction of the connector roads to start early next year so that these infrastructure would be completed in time for the Leaders Meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) which the Philippines would be hosting in 2015.

Both MPTC and Citra should have a common area spanning five kilometers from Quirino in Manila up to Nagtahan in Sta. Mesa in Manila crossing the Pasig River.

President Aquino decided to let both MPTC and SMC to build their own connector roads to be completed by 2015.

The road projects would connect Makati City where the SLEX ends to Caloocan and Balintawak where NLEX starts. The project cost is placed at P45 billion.

Linking NLEx and SLEx has been in the pipeline since 2010, when MPTC submitted an unsolicited proposal to build a 13.4-kilometer, four-lane elevated road connecting the two over the railway from Makati to Caloocan.

Citra and MPTC met several times to resolve the issue pertaining to the Buendia to Sta. Mesa Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) segment of Citra’s Skyway Stage 3 to which the MPTC’s Connector Road would connect.

http://www.philstar.com/business/201...tor-road-issue

[absinthe_888]

wow, 200 to 300k ang projected daily traffic count ng S3...Mas madami pa sa nagamit ng SLEX per day

[Planning Democracy]

Nice, hope it starts in 2013 already, I hope they stop bickering about the revenue split on the common areas as well.

They should start ASAP, I'm no PNoy supporter but at least the big ticket projects are not mired in controversy, but wait, isa pa lang ata yung natutuloy, wala kasing tong-pats eh kaya mabagal.

[edly]

Ituloy na yan! Tama na mga PR's.

[krrra]

Originally Posted by edly

Ituloy na yan! Tama na mga PR's.

mauuna muna ang NLEX segment 9 next month...

[leofriends]

DOTC strikes compromise deal over connector road of MPTC, Citra Manila projects

By: Darwin G. Amojelar, InterAksyon.com
December 27, 2012 6:09 PM

MANILA - The government has resolved the row between the private proponents of two separate tollway projects that would link the north and south of Metro Manila, the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) said on Thursday.

"A compromise decision was made by government, which government thinks is acceptable to the parties," Transport Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya told Interaksyon.com in a text message.

Metro Pacific Tollways Corp (MPTC) and Citra Metro Manila Tollways Corp are pursuing separate projects that would link the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) to the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX). MPTC, through Manila North Tollways Corp operates NLEX, while Citra Manila runs SLEX.

Their projects however will share a 5-kilometer stretch of road from Buendia Avenue in Makati City to the Polytechnic University of the Philippines campus in Sta. Mesa, Manila.

The common road is viewed as the most profitable stretch of either project since the volume of traffic at that segment would be the highest. The original proposal was for a 3-kilometer common road from Buendia to Plaza Dilao in Paco, Manila.

Abaya did not disclose additional details of the government decision, especially on the thorny issue of who or how the common alignment of the two projects would be funded.

MPTC had proposed that both proponents share 50-50 the cost of constructing the common road, but Citra Manila wants a scheme whereby either party's share would depend on the actual traffic entering the common alignment from their respective ends of that segment.

Abaya said the government decision would be incorporated in the Supplemental Toll Operation Agreement (STOA) of Citra Manila, after which the Toll Regulatory Board would endorse the deal for Malacanang approval.

"We are hoping [for the Palace approval by] January next year because we have APEC 2015 as a target for both connector roads," Abaya said.

MPTC plans to construct the 13-kilometer NLEX-SLEX Connector Road for P22.95 billion. The project is expected to start early next year and would create 8,000 jobs. The connector road would run along the tracks of state-owned Philippine National Railways.

Citra Manila's project calls for a P25.4 billion 14-kilometer, six-lane tollway that will have exits in Quirino and Plaza Dilao in Manila; and in Aurora Boulevard, E. Rodriguez Avenue, Quezon Boulevard, Sgt. Rivera, and Balintawak in Quezon City.

http://www.interaksyon.com/business/...anila-projects

[leofriends]

Noy nod on STOA key to start of Skyway 3

Written by Ed Velasco
Friday, 28 December 2012 00:00

Construction of Skyway 3 is almost sure to start in January 2013 as the supplemental toll operation agreement (STOA) is now being prepared by the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB), Department of Transportation and Communications (DoTC) Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya confirmed yesterday.

Abaya said said preparations of STOA started a day after Christmas as the negotiations for the common alignment were finished that day under the agreement between DoTC, San Miguel Corp., Citra and Manila North Tollways Corp.

“Yes, we feel it is settled,” Abaya replied when asked if the negotiations on common alignment were settled.

Under Citra’s proposal, it agreed to advance the cost of construction for the five-kilometer stretch of common alignment but wanted a bigger chunk in the toll on that portion of the road.

SMC and Citra will operate Skyway 3 for 25 years while the MNTC will operate the South Luzon Expressway-North Luzon Expressway (Slex-Nlex) connector for still undisclosed period.

There is no development yet regarding the connector as it is under the Department of Public Works and Highways, not DoTC.

“We are finalizing the STOA. It is now in TRB’s court as they draft the agreement and have it approved by the president,” Abaya, a former congressman of Cavite, told The Daily Tribune in an exclusive interview.

Once the STOA is finished,it will be submitted to the president. Once it reaches the Office of the President, the DoTC will no longer have jusrisdiction on it.

http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/...rt-of-skyway-3

[leofriends]

NLEx-SLEx road links' shared road issues need Aquino's final OK

by Rappler.com
Posted on 01/07/2013 12:31 PM | Updated 01/07/2013 2:33 PM

MANILA, Philippines - The issues hounding the two road projects linking the expressways north and south of Metro Manila have been resolved, paving the way for this crucial infrastructure projects meant to ease traffic and improve connectivity to proceed.

Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya declined to divulge the issues that have stalled the "common alignment road," or a 5-kilometer-long stretch that the two NLEx-SLEx Connector road projects share, but stressed that recent actions would pave the way for the start of construction this January once President Benigno Aquino III gives his nod.

“Better to wait final approval of the President," Abaya had told reporters. "Yes, it’s somewhere between the two proposals which the TRB (Toll Regulatory Board) will formalize in the STOA (Supplemental Toll Operation Agreement)."

Abaya said the TRB will incorporate the specifications of the common alignment before a notice to proceed it given.

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http://www.rappler.com/business/1928...slex-connector

[absinthe_888]

All big-time projects naman will not proceed without the final approval of the President

[expatdingdong]

January 2013 na... me nabungkal na bang lupa????????????

[Transporter89]

bakit gusto mo ba magbungkal ng lupa?

[krrra]

Originally Posted by Transporter89

bakit gusto mo ba magbungkal ng lupa?

expatdingdong meant was the Row should be fenced and secured

[leofriends]

gusto mo tayu na mangbungkal dun.. tapos sila na maglagay ng piles..