R8 - North Luzón Expressway

[ryanr]

Here are the NLEX pictures i took last July...

[renell]

nice shots there. did you figure out why there's two major toll gates?

[ryanr]

well each major toll gate is for northbound and southbound. They are quite near to MM, so they are the main payment booths when you leave/enter the city.

[renell]

oh right. i see hadn't thought of that

how far did you go? when i was there in San Fernando they still didnt a lot of work to be done

[ryanr]

I also went to San Fernando. I took a picture of the tollbooth in San Fernando, i'll post it later. I also took a pic of Robinsons Starmills. That place gets really traffic congested! I was stuck there for 45mins

[renell]

that's why it's a bad place for malls. or at least the roads were not built for this type of traffic. they should have anticipated it

[mysaong03]

is it part of the plan to reconstruct also the secondary roads on both sides specially along the meycauayan-valenzuela portion?

im wondering how were they able to renovate the nlex w/ 4-lanes now even w/o expanding the sides? coz its only 3-lanes here in the south on 1 side from alabang to nichols?

if benbres will sell its stake on the project sooner, then who'll be the new franchise holder that wud collect the tolls? naku baka mahulog na namn yan sa kamay ng pncc!!

where are the other 2 new interchanges aside from marilao?

[federal]

Yeah! and saan yung cloverleaf-like interchange na bago? Parang sa balintawak din daw but better?

[renell]

hmm... is this new interchange in MM? didnt pass by one in NLEX last april.

[absent-minded]

thanks for the pictures, greyx!! how'd you take them? pretty clear...! NLEX looks awesome... absolutely impressive. it just looks messed up with that first toll booth like bulging up two-thirds of the way. hahaha... why is it like that? great shots with the sunset at the tip of the horizon and all...! haha...! nice!!

[federal]

i dunno if this was posted earlier... pero it's cool
www.mntc.com

[Kiel]

I'm very happy with the improvements on the NLEX Good to know it's gonna be finished by the end of this year, I think. =/ Nice site they have too; now hopefully they could move on with more infra projects for the North Haha.

[renell]

hey federal, nice find. look what i found

[muzic_lover2981]

wOw, it's a nice pic!thansks, Renell!!

[renell]

hmm.. i wondering, is this new cloverleaf interchange federal was talking about in the C5-NLEX interchange?

[ryanr]

Originally Posted by absent-minded

thanks for the pictures, greyx!! how'd you take them? pretty clear...! NLEX looks awesome... absolutely impressive. it just looks messed up with that first toll booth like bulging up two-thirds of the way. hahaha... why is it like that? great shots with the sunset at the tip of the horizon and all...! haha...! nice!!

thanks! I took them from the front seat of my car.

i explained to renell why the toll booths bulges in a post above.

The thing that they should have done first was set up the street-lights. If you look carefully in my pictures, there are no bulbs yet. So, on my way back to Manila, it was really dark (except for the headlights of the cars).

[renell]

well in certain parts of the NLEX and SLEX it's a bit like French highways. no lights. just yours. and sometimes you're the only car in 500m.

[rico]

from the map, subic looks so much out of the way.

[renell]

took us a long time to get there. crossing through the lahar, crossing Pampanga, then into the mountains of Bataan and Zambales

[federal]

The branching yellow line ----> Is that the link to Subic? And if yes, phase 3 pa... so super tagal! NLEX-c5 Interchange... wow... I wonder when will they finish it. It's getting exciting to have all there roads Sana Ayusin din yung balintawak interchange... only the southbound side of the bridge at EDSA Balintawak portion was widened...(palengke side)

And regarding NLEX...phase 1, there's a fork at the Burol Interchange area on the map... so may interchange na complicated dun? Or exit lang tapos road na pa-left towards Tabang toll plaza..

And ano na nga pala itsura ng Sta ines segment, yung after the toll plaza? Sharing pa rin pa yung 2 lanes sa isang side..?or they made a road na rin for the opposite side

And I also want to say, wow, grabe yung volume. Dpa tapos pero dami na cars.... tama lang yung expansion. How about extension to Ilocos....that would be an enjoying long drive