Metro Manila Skyway

[le Reine]

Manila port as in south port or north? either way, that would be so difficult to implement, even a lot more difficult than the NLEX-SLEX connection because of ROW issues.

[wheel of steel]

Originally Posted by XP

Manila port as in south port or north? either way, that would be so difficult to implement, even a lot more difficult than the NLEX-SLEX connection because of ROW issues.

Yup, exactly in the Manila Port Area... It wll be a 4 lane elevated highway...

[youdamiren]

Citra Metro Tollways Corp. of Indonesia is taking over the operations of the 9.3-kilometer Metro Manila Skyway beginning today, resulting in the retrenchment of 1,000 employees of the nine-year-old PNCC-Skyway Corp.

Romy Riganit, head of PNCC Skyway operations, said in a television interview that Citra would operate the Skyway beginning today, through a new company called Operation and Maintenance Co. with its own employees.

Employees of PNCC Skyway Corp., a subsidiary of the government-owned Philippine National Construction Corp., staged a rally in front of the PNCC head office in Pasay City yesterday to protest the retrenchment of personnel.

Riganit said the operations of Skyway were set to be formally turned over to the new company at 10 p.m. yesterday. The new company, he said, had already made the necessary preparations for the assumption of the Skyway operation.

As a result of the takeover, PNCC Skyway Corp. was dissolved, which meant that all the 800 regular employees of the company would be retrenched, he added.

Riganit said some of the retrenched employees would have the chance to be rehired, if the new private company opened the door for them.

However, an employee of PNCC Skyway Corp. said the new company agreed to absorb less than 100 employees of the dissolved firm.

The PNCC Skyway Corp. Employees Union said another 200 contractual workers, on top of the 800 regular workers, were to be displaced because of the privatization of the Skyway. Roderick T. dela Cruz

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=business4_jan1_2008

[jun_of]

http://www.bworldonline.com/BW010208/content.php?id=042

THE SKYWAY system, the elevated road which stretches from Nichols, Pasay to Alabang, Muntinlupa, was formally turned over to the private sector when Skyway Operations and Maintenance Corp. (Skyway O&M) started operations yesterday.

Wilfredo P. Cu, chief executive of PNCC Skyway Corp., which is a subsidiary of Philippine National Construction Corp. (PNCC), said the move was consistent to the current thrust of the government to privatize its assets.

Skyway Corp. operated the system, which it constructed together with Indonesian firm Citra.

"There was nothing irregular about it (turnover of operations to a new company). It was a business decision on the part of the PNCC and the government to privatize the operations of the Skyway," Mr. Cu told BusinessWorld in a phone interview.

Skyway O&M is owned by Tollroad O&M Venture Corp., Asset Value Holdings Corp., Metro Strategic Infrastructure Holdings, and Citra.

Transfer agreement

Last July, PNCC, Citra Metro Manila Tollways Corp. and the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) signed the Amended Supplemental Toll Operators Agreement (ASTOA) giving the management of the 35-kilometer toll road to the newly formed firm.

Skyway O&M Officer-in-Charge Ramon M. Borromeo said the transfer of the operations agreement to the private company was done to meet lenders’ demands.

"The lenders of the project would be more comfortable if it (Sykway) is operated by the private sector," he said.

He noted that the ASTOA would also extend the Skyway to Bicutan. The seven-kilometer extension would cost P8.1 billion.

Last Monday, Skyway Corp.’s union groups Employees Union and the Traffic Management and Security Department Workers’ Organization led a strike protesting the turnover that they claim would lay off around 800 people.

Properly compensated

But Mr. Cu said that these employees were given separation packages.

"We have given all of them including those absorbed by Skyway O&M generous offers (separation pays of 250% of salary per year of service)," Mr. Cu said.

"A number of consultations were also done before and after ASTOA," he added.

For his part, Mr. Borromeo said his company could not absorb all the employees of Skyway Corp., but added that approximately 300 regular and 300 contractual former Skyway Corp. employees were taken in.

Mr. Borromeo added that because all of the firm’s employees are currently in probation, there was a possibility of hiring Skyway Corp. employees who are qualified, but were not absorbed initially. — Marian Grace S. Ramos

[absinthe_888]

Excerpts from the DPWH year ender report


Yearender: SONA projects of DPWH rushed in 2007
By Edu Punay

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

http://philstar.com/index.php?Headli...id=20080101144


Also completed in 2007 was the P1.1-billion Plaridel bypass road from the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) and the P601.68-million ramps 1 and 4 of the Skyway at the expressway going to Ninoy Aquino International Airport.

For projects to improve traffic in Metro Manila, contract package 1-Sales Interchange of NAIA expressway, which costs P179.97 million, was already 84.75 percent complete as of yearend. The P597.836-million ramps 2 and 3 of Skyway were 88.42 percent complete as of Dec. 31.

[3cr]

Skyway operations given to consortium
Business World
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/newrep...reply&t=103263

THE SKYWAY system, the elevated road which stretches from Nichols, Pasay to Alabang, Muntinlupa, was formally turned over to the private sector when Skyway Operations and Maintenance Corp. (Skyway O&M) started operations yesterday.

Wilfredo P. Cu, chief executive of PNCC Skyway Corp., which is a subsidiary of Philippine National Construction Corp. (PNCC), said the move was consistent to the current thrust of the government to privatize its assets.

Skyway Corp. operated the system, which it constructed together with Indonesian firm Citra.

"There was nothing irregular about it (turnover of operations to a new company). It was a business decision on the part of the PNCC and the government to privatize the operations of the Skyway," Mr. Cu told BusinessWorld in a phone interview.

Skyway O&M is owned by Tollroad O&M Venture Corp., Asset Value Holdings Corp., Metro Strategic Infrastructure Holdings, and Citra.

Transfer agreement

Last July, PNCC, Citra Metro Manila Tollways Corp. and the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) signed the Amended Supplemental Toll Operators Agreement (ASTOA) giving the management of the 35-kilometer toll road to the newly formed firm.

Skyway O&M Officer-in-Charge Ramon M. Borromeo said the transfer of the operations agreement to the private company was done to meet lenders’ demands.

"The lenders of the project would be more comfortable if it (Sykway) is operated by the private sector," he said.

He noted that the ASTOA would also extend the Skyway to Bicutan. The seven-kilometer extension would cost P8.1 billion.

Last Monday, Skyway Corp.’s union groups Employees Union and the Traffic Management and Security Department Workers’ Organization led a strike protesting the turnover that they claim would lay off around 800 people.

Properly compensated

But Mr. Cu said that these employees were given separation packages.

"We have given all of them including those absorbed by Skyway O&M generous offers (separation pays of 250% of salary per year of service)," Mr. Cu said.

"A number of consultations were also done before and after ASTOA," he added.

For his part, Mr. Borromeo said his company could not absorb all the employees of Skyway Corp., but added that approximately 300 regular and 300 contractual former Skyway Corp. employees were taken in.

Mr. Borromeo added that because all of the firm’s employees are currently in probation, there was a possibility of hiring Skyway Corp. employees who are qualified, but were not absorbed initially.

[amras]

He noted that the ASTOA would also extend the Skyway to Bicutan. The seven-kilometer extension would cost P8.1 billion.

diba hanggang Bicutan na ang Skyway?

[barrera_marquez]

Originally Posted by 3cr

Skyway operations given to consortium
Business World
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/newrep...reply&t=103263

THE SKYWAY system, the elevated road which stretches from Nichols, Pasay to Alabang, Muntinlupa, was formally turned over to the private sector when Skyway Operations and Maintenance Corp. (Skyway O&M) started operations yesterday.

Wilfredo P. Cu, chief executive of PNCC Skyway Corp., which is a subsidiary of Philippine National Construction Corp. (PNCC), said the move was consistent to the current thrust of the government to privatize its assets.

Skyway Corp. operated the system, which it constructed together with Indonesian firm Citra.

"There was nothing irregular about it (turnover of operations to a new company). It was a business decision on the part of the PNCC and the government to privatize the operations of the Skyway," Mr. Cu told BusinessWorld in a phone interview.

Skyway O&M is owned by Tollroad O&M Venture Corp., Asset Value Holdings Corp., Metro Strategic Infrastructure Holdings, and Citra.

Transfer agreement

Last July, PNCC, Citra Metro Manila Tollways Corp. and the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) signed the Amended Supplemental Toll Operators Agreement (ASTOA) giving the management of the 35-kilometer toll road to the newly formed firm.

Skyway O&M Officer-in-Charge Ramon M. Borromeo said the transfer of the operations agreement to the private company was done to meet lenders’ demands.

"The lenders of the project would be more comfortable if it (Sykway) is operated by the private sector," he said.

He noted that the ASTOA would also extend the Skyway to Bicutan. The seven-kilometer extension would cost P8.1 billion.

Last Monday, Skyway Corp.’s union groups Employees Union and the Traffic Management and Security Department Workers’ Organization led a strike protesting the turnover that they claim would lay off around 800 people.

Properly compensated

But Mr. Cu said that these employees were given separation packages.

"We have given all of them including those absorbed by Skyway O&M generous offers (separation pays of 250% of salary per year of service)," Mr. Cu said.

"A number of consultations were also done before and after ASTOA," he added.

For his part, Mr. Borromeo said his company could not absorb all the employees of Skyway Corp., but added that approximately 300 regular and 300 contractual former Skyway Corp. employees were taken in.

Mr. Borromeo added that because all of the firm’s employees are currently in probation, there was a possibility of hiring Skyway Corp. employees who are qualified, but were not absorbed initially.

Kaya nga nag-rally ang mga pinatalsik na empleyado ng PNCC-Skyway? Kasi ba naman, kung walang aberya ang construction niyan di sana hanggang Alabang na iyan plus, walang rally at baka nasa North Luzon Expressway na ang isang dulo niyan! By the way, hindi ba iyon ang dahilan bakit tinayo ang Skyway para maikabit ang NLEx at SLEx?

[ericlucky290]

Originally Posted by barrera_marquez

Kaya nga nag-rally ang mga pinatalsik na empleyado ng PNCC-Skyway? Kasi ba naman, kung walang aberya ang construction niyan di sana hanggang Alabang na iyan plus, walang rally at baka nasa North Luzon Expressway na ang isang dulo niyan! By the way, hindi ba iyon ang dahilan bakit tinayo ang Skyway para maikabit ang NLEx at SLEx?

The Phase 3 of skyway will connect NLEX and SLEX pero wala pang news kailan gagawin. The government is contructing right now C5 to connect NLEX to SLEX.

[barrera_marquez]

Originally Posted by ericlucky290

The Phase 3 of skyway will connect NLEX and SLEX pero wala pang news kailan gagawin. The government is contructing right now C5 to connect NLEX to SLEX.

Mahirap i-connect ang NLEx at SLEx by Skyway dahil maraming dadaanan iyan. Pero kung matapos man, it will be the most efficient route of vehicles from North to South and vice versa.

[richard24]

yep., the phase 3 would hit the motel row of sta. mesa.,

[AH-7Raja]

Originally Posted by ericlucky290

I found this over the internet:

image hosted on flickr


image hosted on flickr


Kailan kaya matatapos ang mga ito?

nayon ko lang napansin ito huh... i can see that the planned naia to cavite expressway is at the south side right beside or few meters away from the naia runway... si kaya ito yung nasilip kong plano nila dati? possibly eh? so atleast itutuloy na nga nila unti unti yung mga planong nagawa dati... medyo modified na nga lang itong post ni erick... just wondering though, mukhang istorbo talaga yung naia at lalagyan pa ng bagong highway sa tabi nya... it will really make naia more congested once they built that expressway... its really time now that the kuwaiti investment should push through! so that in 20 yrs meron na tayong bagong modernong airport and other infras!

[barrera_marquez]

Originally Posted by AH-7Raja

nayon ko lang napansin ito huh... i can see that the planned naia to cavite expressway is at the south side right beside or few meters away from the naia runway... si kaya ito yung nasilip kong plano nila dati? possibly eh? so atleast itutuloy na nga nila unti unti yung mga planong nagawa dati... medyo modified na nga lang itong post ni erick... just wondering though, mukhang istorbo talaga yung naia at lalagyan pa ng bagong highway sa tabi nya... it will really make naia more congested once they built that expressway... its really time now that the kuwaiti investment should push through! so that in 20 yrs meron na tayong bagong modernong airport and other infras!

Hindi na masama! Kaya lang since nagsisimula pa lamang ang Stage 2 ng Skyway at on-going ang SLEx rehabilitation, mukhang nakakapanduda kung matatapos nga nila ito sa mga petsa ng pagtatapos.

Translation:
Not bad. But since the Skyway Stage 2 has just began and the SLEx Rehabilitaion is on-going, I doubt they can finish it on the dates of completion.

[D'Watcher]

This was the latest update skyway construction progress dated Jan 4, 2008

[barrera_marquez]

Originally Posted by D'Watcher

This was the latest update skyway construction progress dated Jan 4, 2008

Not bad! Everything seems to be on its way! Hopefully it will be finished on time with the SLEx rehabilitation.

[ericlucky290]

Yun bang sa side na steel ay temporary or permanent na yon?

[absinthe_888]

alam ko temporary lang yung mga ramps na yan sa bicutan, na pag natapos yung bicutan to alabang tatanggalin na yun.

[diz]

wow. that looks so nice.!! i love it!

[Mithril Cloud]

Is there some reason why they can't work on more than two slabs at a time?

[bustero]

while mas maganda more slabs I'll take it over no slabs!

is there a hard end date to finish this all the way to alabang ?