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#1 ·
Metro Manila Skyway (from Toll Regulatory Board)

Project Description:

The South Metro Manila Skyway Project consists of 4 stages:

Stage 1: Construction of 9.5km Buendia-Bicutan elevated tollway and the rehabilitation of the Magallanes-Alabang section of the SLEX.
Stage 2: Construction of 6.88km Bicutan-Alabang elevated tollway.
Stage 3: Construction of the 18.5km Buendia-Balintawak (NLEX) elevated Tollway.
Stage 4: Metro Manila Tollway, a component of the C-6 road at the eastern corridor of Metro Manila from Skyway at-grade section in Bicutan to NLEX in Marilao.

The South Metro Manila Skyway Project (SMMSP) is a modern six-lane elevated toll expressway built above the existing at-grade highway from Makati City to Muntinlupa City. It includes the rehabilitation of the South Luzon Expressway from Magallanes to Alabang.

Stage 1​
Elevated 2X3 Lane divided expressway from Buendia, Makati to Bicutan Paranaque City.
9.377​
Rehabilitation of the existing SLEX At-grade from Magallanes to Alabang.
13.43​
Stage 2​
Continuation of Stage 1 also an elevated expressway from Bicutan to Alabang over the existing alignment of SLEX.
6.88​
Stage 3​
Elevated expressway from Buendia, Makati City to NLEX Balintawak, Quezon City.
Section 1Buendia/Makati - Quirino Avenue/Plaza Dilao
3.379​
Section 1 - 1APlaza Dilao - Plaza Berde
0.382​
Section 1A - 2Plaza Berde - PUP Campus
2.085​
Section 2BPandacan - SM Center Point/Sta. Mesa
3.956​
Section 3SM Center Point/Sta. Mesa - Quezon Avenue
2.708​
Section 4Quezon Avenue - EDSA Balintawak
4.390​
Section 5EDSA Balintawak - NLEX or Balintawak Rampway
1.480​
Contracting Parties:

Project Grantor: Toll Regulatory Board (TRB)
Project Grantee: Philippine National Construction Corporation (PNCC) and Citra Metro Manila Tollways Corp. (CMMTC)
Project Operator: Skyway Operation and Maintenance Corp. (SOMCO)
Concession Period:

30 years from the Final Operation Date.
Historical Background:

To achieve national progress in the real sense is to put in place modern infrastructure.

Being one of Asia’s growing economies in the early 1990’s, the Philippines needed to maintain the correlation between economic growth and infrastructure investments. At that time, one of the Metro Manila’s biggest setbacks in stepping up productivity and increasing business opportunities that could spur economic growth was the worsening traffic situation, especially along the Alabang –Makati corridor.

In recognizing this, the administration of then President Fidel V. Ramos sought private investments in projects that could pump-prime the economy and help decongest vehicular traffic in the Megacity’s central business district.

One such project was his administration’s flagship project: the Metro Manila Skyway Project (SMMSP). Aimed to serve as the vital link between Metro Manila and the growth centers north and south of it, the MMSP was pursued by FVR who laid the groundwork for the public-private partnership of the state-owned Philippine National Construction Corporation (PNCC) and Jakarta-based Citra Lamtoro Gung Persada (CITRA).

Citra Metro Manila Tollways Corporation, the SMMSP developer, initiated the implementation of an integrated toll road network which one of the country’s most significant infrastructure projects, aimed at helping decongest Metro Manila’s major road system and increase the area’s economic opportunities.

Known as the Skyway System, SMMSP effectively doubles the road capacity to accommodate 300,000 vehicles daily, easing the flow of traffic between the country’s major urban centers and the industrial heartland.
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Original post starter:

Metro Manila Skyway - Compiled Threads

Got these from an old copy (1996) of Construction Management magazine... to think that these plans are almost a decade old already!... and the future fate of the Skyway Project is still in uncertain...






I love this one... the proposed segment along A. Bonifacio/G. Araneta Ave. - a double-decker!
 
#742 ·
Suggestions lang para mabawasan ang traffic jam dyan sa Skyway construction site from Alabang to Bicutan:
- kunin ang tig-isang lanes ng Service roads para gamitin sa SLEX traffic for extra lanes
- gawing one way-single lane ang service roads (West service road, southbound) and EastSR-North bound traffic lang. (mas madali pa i-manage ang traffic sa sucat and alabang interchanges)
- hindi na kailangan tibagin ang fences sa stretch ng Alab to Bictn, gawan lang ng divider

Kung magagawa ng Citra ito, medyo luluwag ang traffic dyan
suggestion lang naman, as tempo solution during const period :)
 
#743 ·
^^ and we are not even sure Stage 2 will be completed in 2 years :lol:
I think it's gonna be completed. :) Pls. see below.
"
MANILA, Philippines--A syndicate of five banks agreed to provide a P14-billion loan facility to Citra Metro Manila Skyway Corp. to expand its elevated tollway from Bicutan to Alabang and refinance old debts.

The members of the loan consortium are Philippine National Bank, Allied Banking Corp., Land Bank of the Philippines, Union Bank of the Philippines and East West Bank, PNB president Omar Mier said last week."
 
#745 ·
^^Kaya may streetlight sa service road ay for "safety." Tuwing gabi, sobrang dilim sa East and West service roads. Kaya naglagay ng streetlights. It is for safety purposes.

At saka diba kapag maliwanag ang daan, magandang tingnan. Kumbaga may liwanag ang buhay!!!!
 
#747 ·
^^Kaya may streetlight sa service road ay for "safety." Tuwing gabi, sobrang dilim sa East and West service roads. Kaya naglagay ng streetlights. It is for safety purposes.

At saka diba kapag maliwanag ang daan, magandang tingnan. Kumbaga may liwanag ang buhay!!!!
:banana::banana::banana: MERALCO yan..hehehe tama ka gusto ko din yung mga kalsadang may streetlights syempre pagnakikita ko yun RAMDAM ANG KAUNLARAN...noh..(GMA )
 
#748 ·
repost

Tito F. Hermoso
source

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Down south, the dream-build Skyway from Buendia to Balintawak may still remain a plan, but the 6.88-km Skyway from Bicutan to Alabang starts constructing in the first quarter of 2009. Citra Metro Manila Tollway envisage 24 months construction time.

For Stage 1, the plan calls for the three-lane, dual carriageway Skyway to continue from Bicutan to Sucat, while Stage 2 is the Sucat to Alabang descending ramp. As the Skyway approaches Sucat, the Alabang-bound lanes reduce to two while the westward elevated branch to the Dr. Santos Ave. exit remains two lanes. Skyway regulars can imagine the Sucat exit as a carbon copy of the Bicutan exit.

After Sucat, the two-lane dual carriageway Skyway heading for Bunye Road, Alabang widens to six lanes on each side to accommodate the terminal toll plaza. After the plaza there will be ramps on to both sides to return traffic to the ground level, just off the approach of the gantry that identifies the end of the Skyway system and the beginning of the South Luzon Tollway.

When this is all finished, the steel Bicutan temporary ramps that crowd the interchange will be taken down, restoring the ground level traffic to an unconstricted contiguous three lanes without the chicanes caused by the temp ramps. Stage 2 will also reduce ground level through traffic as Alabang residents going to Makati can take the express Skyway, hoping not to be daunted at the Taguig toll gates. Sucat-bound motorists will also have a genuine option of either the ground level toll gates at the existing Sucat exit or taking the Skyway to exit on the westway spur that will descend further west of Dr. Santos Ave.

Construction activities ape the 1997 building of the Skyway system where deployed men and material are isolated from "live" traffic. There will be one lane reductions in each direction but Citra Metro Manila Skyway will man, equip and locate several emergency bays so breakdowns and those needing rescue can be attended to 24/7 without disrupting through traffic. Most of heavy construction activity will be ramped up in the evening when traffic eases a bit.

We look forward to traffic relief by 2010, which only leaves the missing link between South Luzon Tollway’s Calamba cloverleaf to the Sto. Tomas STAR expressway as the only unrealized dream.
 
#754 · (Edited)
Here's an article about Skyway:

Free use of Skyway to ease SLEX traffic urged

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquir...Free-use-of-Skyway-to-ease-SLEX-traffic-urged

By Marlon Ramos
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:02:00 03/12/2009

Filed Under: Local authorities, Road Transport


MANILA, Philippines – A lawmaker from Northern Samar has urged a tollway operator to allow motorists to use the elevated toll road on the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) for free to ease up the bottleneck caused by the tollway firm’s road work.

Rep. Paul Daza said the heavy traffic on the northbound portion of SLEX has affected residents in southern Metro Manila and Southern Tagalog provinces.

Daza, who lives in Alabang, Muntinlupa City, said he was among the hundreds of motorists who were caught in the middle of a 14-kilometer long traffic jam on the Metro Manila-bound lane of SLEX on Monday.

Citra Metro Manila Skyway Corp. (Citra), operator of the elevated tollway, has said the bottleneck was caused by the roadwork on the off ramp portion of Skyway near the Bicutan exit.

As the project would take Citra at least two years to complete, Daza argued that opening the Skyway to motorists without charging toll would greatly improve the traffic situation in the area.

“What they are doing is a disservice to the people living in the south of Metro Manila. The least that Citra could do is to let motorists use the Skyway for free,” he said over the phone.

Daza also criticized Citra for its failure to issue a traffic advisory and come up with a traffic management plan.

Libreng toll sa Skyway? Payag ba kau?
 
#757 ·
Here's an article about Skyway:

Free use of Skyway to ease SLEX traffic urged

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquir...Free-use-of-Skyway-to-ease-SLEX-traffic-urged

By Marlon Ramos
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:02:00 03/12/2009

Filed Under: Local authorities, Road Transport


MANILA, Philippines – A lawmaker from Northern Samar has urged a tollway operator to allow motorists to use the elevated toll road on the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) for free to ease up the bottleneck caused by the tollway firm’s road work.

Rep. Paul Daza said the heavy traffic on the northbound portion of SLEX has affected residents in southern Metro Manila and Southern Tagalog provinces.

Daza, who lives in Alabang, Muntinlupa City, said he was among the hundreds of motorists who were caught in the middle of a 14-kilometer long traffic jam on the Metro Manila-bound lane of SLEX on Monday.

Citra Metro Manila Skyway Corp. (Citra), operator of the elevated tollway, has said the bottleneck was caused by the roadwork on the off ramp portion of Skyway near the Bicutan exit.

As the project would take Citra at least two years to complete, Daza argued that opening the Skyway to motorists without charging toll would greatly improve the traffic situation in the area.

“What they are doing is a disservice to the people living in the south of Metro Manila. The least that Citra could do is to let motorists use the Skyway for free,” he said over the phone.

Daza also criticized Citra for its failure to issue a traffic advisory and come up with a traffic management plan.

Libreng toll sa Skyway? Payag ba kau?
^^This Daza has no business being a congressman if he cannot understand the concept of "Business Venture" and "Return of Investment"...Sheezh!!!!:doh: What an idiot! :eek:hno:
 
#758 ·
In fairness to the congressman, I think he was speaking about it as a citizen of Alabang more than a business-minded person. Most of the people in Alabang would still go north for work, and I would assume he is doing the same. Although there are people like me who are willing to bare with the traffic, I don't think everyone is the same.

The fact that the traffic goes all the way from Filinvest Interchange (or sometimes even Filinvest Avenue) to the Skyway flyover means that something should be done. Opening the Skyway may not be the most financially sound decision to make, but it is most probably one of the more efficient ways, financial aspect set aside, to alleviate the traffic from Alabang to the north.
 
#759 ·
Here's an article about Skyway:

Free use of Skyway to ease SLEX traffic urged

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquir...Free-use-of-Skyway-to-ease-SLEX-traffic-urged

By Marlon Ramos
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:02:00 03/12/2009

Filed Under: Local authorities, Road Transport


MANILA, Philippines – A lawmaker from Northern Samar has urged a tollway operator to allow motorists to use the elevated toll road on the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) for free to ease up the bottleneck caused by the tollway firm’s road work.

Rep. Paul Daza said the heavy traffic on the northbound portion of SLEX has affected residents in southern Metro Manila and Southern Tagalog provinces.

Daza, who lives in Alabang, Muntinlupa City, said he was among the hundreds of motorists who were caught in the middle of a 14-kilometer long traffic jam on the Metro Manila-bound lane of SLEX on Monday.

Citra Metro Manila Skyway Corp. (Citra), operator of the elevated tollway, has said the bottleneck was caused by the roadwork on the off ramp portion of Skyway near the Bicutan exit.

As the project would take Citra at least two years to complete, Daza argued that opening the Skyway to motorists without charging toll would greatly improve the traffic situation in the area.

“What they are doing is a disservice to the people living in the south of Metro Manila. The least that Citra could do is to let motorists use the Skyway for free,” he said over the phone.

Daza also criticized Citra for its failure to issue a traffic advisory and come up with a traffic management plan.

Libreng toll sa Skyway? Payag ba kau?
Babaan lang hindi gawing libre, in fairness kasi astronomically high nga naman ang toll fee sa Skyway, P80 for first class vehicles for an expressway not as good as NLEx (P80=Santa Rita for first class vehicles) or SCTEx? Thanks na lang... but that should not be the reason to make it free.
 
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