NLEX-SLEX Link Expressway

[expatdingdong]

kapag natuloy yan SARAP MAG BAGUIO NIYAN!!! GRABE!!!!

MULA ALABANG HANGGANG LA UNION, PETIKS IN 3-4 HOURS SIGURO GO GO GO

[rickyhatton]

Originally Posted by expatdingdong

kapag natuloy yan SARAP MAG BAGUIO NIYAN!!! GRABE!!!!

MULA ALABANG HANGGANG LA UNION, PETIKS IN 3-4 HOURS SIGURO GO GO GO

Definitely a big boost to central luzon and the Benguet region in terms of tourism and business. And people from the north too would have a much easier time going to Metro Manila and its surrounding areas.

A friendly advice though, Its very tempting to step on the gas with the roads wide open but just make sure you don't go beyond the speed limit too much... I've been apprehended twice before in NLEX and SCTEX for going beyond the limits! i was caught running 124kph on both instances!

[NTprime]

Originally Posted by rickyhatton

Definitely a big boost to central luzon and the Benguet region in terms of tourism and business. And people from the north too would have a much easier time going to Metro Manila and its surrounding areas.

A friendly advice though, Its very tempting to step on the gas with the roads wide open but just make sure you don't go beyond the speed limit too much... I've been apprehended twice before in NLEX and SCTEX for going beyond the limits! i was caught running 124kph on both instances!

I believe 110 kph should be the speed limit and not 100kph (but for CARS ONLY). Buses should be limited to 90 kph because the momentum and inertia they bring in a crash is a big factor in greater number of injuries or fatalities.

Motorcycles should be limited to 100kph also for those 400 cc and above, and anything lower than that should still be banned from the expressway (as what we have currently with the expressways).

However you have to realize that optimal fuel economy happens at about 2000-2500rpm for cars, which is 80-100kph. Anything higher than 2500 rpm and you are already burning fuel way faster than ideal.

[future_proof]

hi sa lahat ng forumers!may pile boring naba?

[1100]

Wala pa. Ni heavy equipment wala pa.

[absinthe_888]

Wala pa ngang NOA at NTP e, paano naman magpile boring.

[future_proof]

been to nlex thread,no updates yet on its harbour link.

[mach000]

Originally Posted by future_proof

hi sa lahat ng forumers!may pile boring naba?

Wala pa rin. Tingin ko matagal pa ito and most likely 2014 na start ng construction if matutuloy pa.

Keep in mind that the elevated skyway from Sucat to Alabang, a mere 6km distance, took 2 years to complete.

[leofriends]

Deal on common alignment for 2 NLEX-SLEX connector road projects seen sealed by Dec 15

By: Darwin G. Amojelar, InterAksyon.com
November 22, 2012 6:03 PM

MANILA - The proponent of one of two expressways linking the north and south of Metro Manila on Thursday said an agreement on the common alignment would be sealed no later than December 15.

On the sidelines of the EJAP Economic Forum 2012, Metro Pacific Tollways Corp (MPTC) president Ramon Fernandez said the company and San Miguel Corp-backed Citra Metro Manila Tollways Corp are aiming for closure of the agreement before yearend.

MPTC and Citra Manila will pursue their separate projects linking the North Luzon Expressway to the South Luzon Expressway. MPTC, through unit Manila North Tollways Corp, operates NLEX, while Citra Manila runs SLEX.

Fernandez said MTPC is open to partnering with Citra Manila for co-financing of the 5-kilometer common alignment from Buendia in Makati City to Polytechnic University of the Philippines in Sta. Mesa, Manila.

The original proposal was for a 3-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. Walang lamangan kasi yun ang catchment of the traffic. So since it is the most profitable dapat co-equal," Fernandez said.

MPTC plans to construct the 13-kilometer NLEX-SLEX Connector Road for P22.95 billion. The project is expected 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 proposal, on the other hand, calls for a P25.4 billion 14-kilometer, six-lane tollway that will have exists in Quirino, Manila and Plaza Dilao, Aurora Boulevard, E. Rodriguez Ave., Quezon Boulevard, Sgt. Rivera, and Balintawak in Quezon City.

Manuel V. Pangilinan chairs MPTC and TV5, of which InterAksyon.com is the online news portal.

http://www.interaksyon.com/business/...aled-by-dec-15

[Transporter89]

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story...ector-proposal
MPTC, CMMTC face Dec. 18 deadline for NLEX-SLEX connector proposal
November 22, 2012 7:12pm

The government has given Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC) and Citra Metro Manila Tollways Corp. (CMMTC) until Dec. 18 to come up with a unified proposal for the planned connector road between the North Luzon Expressway and the South Luzon Expressway.

According to MPTC president Ramoncito Fernandez on the sidelines of the Economic Forum 2012 organized by the Economic Journalists Association of the Philippines (EJAP), the proposed connector road was approved by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) on Nov. 8.

However, Fernandez said, the approval was contingent on MPTC and CMMTC’s agreeing upon a common area for the road.

So far, the companies have agreed that the common area will span five kilometers from Quirino in Manila up to Nagtahan in Sta. Mesa in Manila, crossing the Pasig River.

The P45-billion road project would connect Makati City, where the SLEX ends, to Caloocan and Balintawak, where NLEX starts.

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

MPTC operates the 83.7-kilometer NLEX, while CMMTC jointly operates the 60-km SLEX.

Meanwhile, Fernandez said the Manila North Tollways Corp. (MNTC) improved its offer to the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) to operate the 94-kilometer Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEX).

The MNTC is a subsidiary of MPTC, which is in turn a subsidiary of Metro Pacific Investment Corporation (MPIC), raising the concession fees and revenue share of the government to P90 billion over a 30-year period from P64.4 billion

The improved offer was based on the calculation that vehicular traffic along the expressway would generate as much as P278 billion during the 30-year period.

MNTC also said it would invest P20 billion in SCTEX until 2043 for road improvements and facilities until 2043. — BM, GMA News

[Transporter89]

http://www.rappler.com/business/1660...oad-by-yearend
MVP group sees deal on common alignment for NLEx-SLEx road by yearend

BY RAPPLER.COM
POSTED ON 11/22/2012 6:26 PM | UPDATED 11/22/2012 7:55 PM

MANILA, Philippines - Pangilinan-led Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC) intends to sign an agreement on the common alignment for the North Luzon Expressway (NLEx)-South Luzon Expressway (SLEx) connector road before the year ends.

MPTC, the tollways arm of the Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC), intends to strike the deal with the other proponent of the NLEx-SLEx connector, Citra Metro Manila Tollways Corp. (CMMTC), on or before December 15, said MPTC President Ramoncito Fernandez at the sidelines of the EJAP Economic Forum 2012 on Thursday, November 22.

Fernandez said MPTC and San Miguel Corp. backed-CMMTC will submit their working plan for the National Economic and Development Authority's approval next month.

"The MPIC’s connector road project has been conditionally approved by NEDA-ICC last November 8. The condition is that we, MPIC and CMMTC, should come to an agreement on the common road alignment. We agreed to treat each other as co-equals and we intend to sign this agreement on or before December 15," he said.

MPTC expects the NLEX-SLEX road connector project to be fully operational by 2016.

The initial cost of the common alignment was pegged at P3 billion, but Fernandez said this has increased because the common segment of the connector road now spans from Buendia in Makati City all the way to Polytechnic University of the Philippines in Sta. Mesa.

Before, the common alignment only covered Buendia to Plaza Dilao in Manila.

"The cost has moved. We were only thinking then of 3 kilometers, but now its 5," noted Fernandez.

Proposals

MPTC earlier submitted a proposal to government for the construction of a P23.6-billion road that will connect NLEx and SLEx by 2016. The proposal involves the construction of a 13.2-km overhead road via the Philippine National Railway tracks.

The Department of Public Works and Highways accepted the proposal, albeit subject to a Swiss challenge.

Meanwhile, the connector road proposal of CMMTC involves the construction of the 14.2-km, 6-lane elevated tollway worth P25.4 billion. CMMTC's road will take a different route, and will have various exit points.

The government accepted CMMTC's proposal after the company asserted its right to construct the road under a concession agreement with government for the Skyway. - Rappler.com

[krrra]

[Transporter89]

me source ka?

[leofriends]

NLEX SLEX CONNECTOR









http://www.dpwh.gov.ph/PPP/main2.asp?page=a12

[leofriends]

Common road resolved on SLEX-NLEX projects

Published on Friday, 23 November 2012 00:00
Written by MYLA IGLESIAS

The two groups of investors planning to connect the country’s two expressways have agreed on the design and the sharing of expenses on a common road. One proponent, Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. said it is finished with engineering details and eager to submit its quote to the government.

The common road runs from the Buendia junction in Makati, pass through Plaza Dilao near the old Paco train station to Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Sta. Mesa.

Metro and Citra San Miguel Corp., the other proponent, agreed to extend the common road from three to five kilometers.

Ramoncito Fernandez, Metro Pacific Tollways Corp., president upgrading the common road would cost at least P3 billion.

In related development Fernandez said he expects the Toll Regulatory Board to approve their request for an 11 percent increase in toll for the North Luzon Expressway.

He said MPTC still has the lowest toll rate of P2 per kilometer in Asia.

Earlier the National Economic Development Authority- Investment Coordinating Committee (NEDA-ICC) made it a condition that before the connector road projects are approved, the two must agree on the common road.

Fernandez said that the two groups will finalize the sharing on the construction cost and revenues .

San Miguel Corp-backed Citra Metro Manila Tollways Corp. (CMMTC) will link the two expressways along a path nearer EDSA traversing the Sta. Mesa –Araneta (St. Rivera) road to connect to the Balintawak entrance of the North Expressway.

The Metro Pacific road will traverse a longer route from Buendia to the Port Area portion of Manila to connect to the Mindanao Ave link in North Expressway.

The Metro project will run 14 kilometers with six lanes and will cost P25 billion.

The Metro project likewise has three phases of development- the Mindanao Ave., to Valenzuela link to be finished by September next year; the Valenzuela to Harbor area then the Harbor area to Buendia.

A 13.2-kilometer elevated road connecting the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) to the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX will cut down travel time across the metropolis from two hours to 15 to 20-minutes, regardless of traffic at ground level.

http://www.malaya.com.ph/index.php/b...-nlex-projects

[leofriends]

[whatuwan]

They say that they are aiming to start construction on 1Q 2013.

[walrus357]

Citra turns down MPTC proposal for common road of 2 projects linking NLEX, SLEX
By: Darwin G. Amojelar, InterAksyon.com
November 25, 2012 4:16 PM

InterAksyon.com
The online news portal of TV5

MANILA - The row between the proponents of two expressways over a common alignment is heating up as negotiations on who will finance and construct the most profitable segment remains unclear.

Shadik Wahono, chief executive of San Miguel Corp-backed Citra Metro Manila Tollways Corp, said the company has turned down the 50-50 sharing scheme proposed by Metro Pacific Tollways Corp (MPTC).

Citra Manila and MPTC are pursuing separate tollway projects that would link the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) to the South Luzon Expressway (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.

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[Monchhichi]

SMC, MPIC clash on road projects
Conglomerates Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) and San Miguel Corp. are on a collision course again over differing proposals on how to fund and build the shared portion of two north-to-south connector roads.
San Miguel-led Citra Metro Manila Tollways Corp. said it planned to build the shared Metro Manila Skyway extension from Buendia to the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) on its own and just get a reimbursement from MPIC after construction has been completed.
“I think our proposal is fair and makes the most sense. Everybody wins,” Citra president and CEO Shadik Wahono said at a press conference. “If we pay 50 percent of the cost, but receive less than 50 percent of the traffic, then it will be a negative investment on our part,” he said.
He said both firms would end up splitting the cost of construction of the shared road, with their respective contributions being determined by how much traffic they would separately bring in.
Worth an estimated P7 billion, the 5-kilometer extension will be shared by both Citra and MPIC, which both have approved proposals to construct roads on separate alignments that aim to connect the Skyway with the North Luzon Expressway (NLEx).
Both proposed roads, named the “connector road” for MPIC and Skyway Phase 3 for Citra, will start at the end of the shared portion before veering off in different directions to their respective alignments.
MPIC holds the concession to NLEx while Citra controls the Skyway.
http://business.inquirer.net/94971/s...-road-projects

[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!!!