Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway

[ICHUO_MX]

Originally Posted by absinthe_888

DPWH contractor ng TPLEx? Inaykupo...

hahahahaha.
nagulat naman ako na DPWH.

no comment na ako dito. naku naku naku.

[Dustin]

ako din no comment!

[phichanad]

Ang sakin lang naman, I hope they keep and properly check the lots reserved for additional lanes. Baka bigla matayuan ng mga bahay yang mga gilid na reserved for expansions.

Anyway, how are the 3 expressways (NLEX, SCTEX, and TPLEx) connected in La Paz, Tarlac?

[anonymous_filipino]

NLEX is already connected to SCTEX in Mabalacat through the SCTEX Spur Road from Mabalacat Exit of SCTEX up to SCTEX Exit of NLEX. SCTEX and TPLEX will be physically connected with each other in La Paz, Tarlac, TPLEX being the continuation of SCTEX up to La Union.

[phichanad]

So if the TPLEx is completed, if i want to go to Baguio from Manila, I will exit at Mabalacat NLEX exit to enter SCTex to continue to TPLEx? Sorry havent tried this route yet before eh. hehe..

[allan_dude]

Arroyo to lead expressway groundbreaking

Sunday, February 28, 2010

ROSALES –- As what Presidential Management Staff (PMS) Chief Hermogenes Esperon Jr. has been saying in the past, the construction of the 88-kilometer, four-lane Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEX) will start here.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will arrive around 1 p.m. Monday for the ground breaking of the TPLEX, the country’s newest expressway project, the last of such project under the Arroyo Administration.

The groundbreaking ceremony will be held at Barangay Tumana West.

Esperon will present a project briefing. Expected to be present are officials from Department of Public Works and Highways and other agencies; Pangasinan Governor Amado Espino Jr., sixth district Representative Conrado Estrella III and Rosales Mayor Ricardo Revita.

TPLEX traverse the towns of Victoria, Gerona, Paniqui and Moncada in Tarlac province; Rosales, Urdaneta City, Binalonan, Pozorrubio, and Sison in Pangasinan and will end in Rosario, La Union.

Based on the project plan, construction will start in Tarlac but this was hampered by the right of way negotiation problems at the Tarlac towns that are still being resolved.

“We learned a lesson from that problem in Tarlac,” Esperon earlier said in one of his interviews.

After the several consultations and meetings with land owners in Rosales who will be affected by the project, Esperon said everything was ironed out. The land owners agreed to give the government permit to enter, meaning construction can already be started.

“Starting the construction at the Pangasinan area was a loss to Tarlac, but is good news for the people of Rosales town and the province of Pangasinan,” Esperon said.

“While negotiation is still being finalized in other areas, construction will be starting here. It will give a domino effect as it would mean jobs for our constituents in the sixth district, it will spur business from construction materials (to include sand and gravel), trucking, and other small businesses. And we have nothing to worry once it is started here because rest assured the project will be finished,” he added.

“When the road is already developed in Rosales (Cabanatuan road), it will be easier and faster to go to nearby Balungao town from Carmen, Rosales,” he further said.

Arroyo formally announced the start of the construction in an occasion late last January in Rosario, La Union.

There, the National Economic Development Authority formally approved the project and turned-over the Investment Coordinating Committee (ICC) certificate to the Private Infrastructure Development Corporation.

The TPLEX is a build-operate-transfer (BOT) project to be constructed by the PIDC, a consortium of 11 companies led by San Miguel Corporation and DMCI.

In her speech here last January, Arroyo said she want the people to remember that the TPLEX was started by her administration. (LCMY)

[Christian_123]

Patay...DPWH ang contractor? If so, Expect a STAR tollway quality (which is horrible) with this new Expressway.

[tyronne]

I know my hometown is not known pero in most articles, they always leave out Villasis as one of those Pangasinan towns this expressway will traverse. Parang non-existent tuloy ang bayan ko hehe! Wala lang...

[greenshields]

I thought a consortium of private companies including DMCI and Balfour are already doing work on the TPLEX sections? The article says so. Crossing my fingers on DPWH involvement in construction.

[phinkiss]

Originally Posted by flip2_0

Saan kaya ang pinakaaccessible na future TPLEX exit going to Northeast Luzon (Isabela, Cagayan) na hindi dadaan sa traffic (i.e. Nueva Ecija)?

take carmen-rosales exit then umingan-san jose-carranglan rd. and then nueva vizcaya na going to cagayan valley....

[allan_dude]

NDC set to approve P3-B bond float for TPLEX

MANILA, March 1 (PNA) -- State-run National Development Co. (NDC) is poised to approve by mid-March the P3-billion bond float to jumpstart the construction of the 88.58 kilometer-toll road extension from Tarlac to Pangasinan and La Union, which is estimated to cost P14 billion to P16 billion.

NDC general manager Ma. Lourdes Rebueno said the NDC Board has tabled for approval the P3-billion bond issuance either this week or next week.

“The terms are not yet final. We are working on it,” Rebueno said.

She said that Land Bank of the Philippines and Social Security System were going to subscribe to the bond float, Rebueno said.

The TPLEX (Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway) project will be the first beneficiary of the bond float, part of the P50-billion infrastructure fund.

Trade and Industry Secretary Peter B. Favila told reporters earlier that local consortium Private Infrastructure Development Corp., led by diversifying firm San Miguel Corp., had asked him if they be allowed to draw on the national government subsidy or equity to the project to a tune of P3 billion.

“I don’t see any problem with the NDC Board approval,” Favila said noting that the Department of Budget and Management can first release the fund while NDC has yet to issue the bonds so the project can take off soonest.

Favila said the equity could also be converted to government shareholdings in the TPLEx project.

The consortium has P1.5 billion in equity or a total of P4.5 billion to jumpstart the toll road project, which is going to run from the end of the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway in La Paz, Tarlac, and connect it to Pangasinan-to Rosario in La Union.

Favila said the construction would like to start on the cleared areas or those with the right-of-way up to Geronimo.

The consortium wants to start construction in March this year and has committed to complete the four-lane road of the expressway in 2014. TPLEx will connect the North Luzon Expressway, Southern Luzon Expressway, C-5, Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway, and the Southern Tagalog Arterial Road.

Aside from the shareholders’ equity and the government subsidy, a syndicate of local banks have already expressed interest to grant loan facilities for the TPLEx project but said that the release of their funds will follow after the government has released the subsidy to the project.

The Sy-controlled Banco de Oro Unibank, parent of BDO Capital, had expressed interest to provide up to P10 billion in loans for the toll road project.

The consortium includes DM Holdings Inc., which holds a 34-percent interest in the consortium, subscribed to the capital increase. Other members of the consortium are DM Wenceslao and Associates, First Balfour Inc., J.E. Manalo and Co. Inc., New Kanlaon Construction, R.D. Policarpio and Rockford Development Corp. (PNA)

[allan_dude]

PGMA lauds private sector for joining TPLEX project

ROSALES, Pangasinan, March 1 (PNA) -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Monday thanked the private sector for participating in the financing, designing, building and soon, operating the P11.95-billion Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEX), Luzon’s newest expressway.

During a inspection and briefing here, the President took note of the announcement by Philippine Infrastructure Development Corp. (PIDC) chairman Rogelio Morga that DM Consunji, leader of the private consortium, wanted the construction to be fast tracked from 22 months to only 18 months.

The President briefed local executives and residents of Pangasinan on the actual benefits to be derived from the private-sector-assisted expressway, saying that “not just in cutting down transport time for goods and services but also in spurring economic growth for all the provinces to be linked by this vital road artery.”

The President told residents of Rosales that once completed, TPLEX would bring economic growth to Rosales and soon would become Rosales City.

Presidential Management Staff (PMS) Chief Secretary Hermogenes Esperon Jr. said that in keeping with President Arroyo’s State Of the Nation Address (SONA) in 2006 and her announcement last Feb.6 to expedite the acquisition, through expropriation for the road right of way (RROW), a one-stop-shop Public Assistance Center was organized with concerned agencies to help in the acquisition and negotiation.

“Of the 154 SONA commitments, 47 national projects have been delivered “but many more will be completed by April to June,” Esperon said in an interview.

“You can see that with the Urban Luzon Beltway, there is a seamless high speed land travel from Batangas through the South Luzon Expressway through C5, to North Luzon Expressway and to Subic Clark Tarlac Expressway and finally TPLEX,” Esperon said.

The 88.58-kilometer expressway will come in two lanes, initially or until such time it reaches the 25,000 daily vehicular load when it will be expanded to four lanes.

It will comprise eight interchanges and 13 bridges which will spur development along the Northern corridor by providing easy access to the north’s economic growth areas that include Baguio City, a prime tourist spot where a special economic zone caters to international firms, like Texas Instruments Philippines Inc., and the Cordillera Region’s total exports.

Urdaneta City, the commercial center of eastern Pangasinan and where market complexes and cattle trading centers are located, and San Fernando City, where the Poro Point Special Economic Zone is located, will also benefit with the operation of the expressway.

The President came here with Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap and was met at the Air Transport Office landing zone by Presidential Adviser for Region 1 Ernie Mendoza, PIDC Chairman Morga, PIDC director George Consunji and by San Miguel Corp. president and chief executive Ramon Ang. (PNA)

[phinkiss]

Originally Posted by allan_dude

PGMA lauds private sector for joining TPLEX project

ROSALES, Pangasinan, March 1 (PNA) -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Monday thanked the private sector for participating in the financing, designing, building and soon, operating the P11.95-billion Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEX), Luzon’s newest expressway.

During a inspection and briefing here, the President took note of the announcement by Philippine Infrastructure Development Corp. (PIDC) chairman Rogelio Morga that DM Consunji, leader of the private consortium, wanted the construction to be fast tracked from 22 months to only 18 months.

The President briefed local executives and residents of Pangasinan on the actual benefits to be derived from the private-sector-assisted expressway, saying that “not just in cutting down transport time for goods and services but also in spurring economic growth for all the provinces to be linked by this vital road artery.”

The President told residents of Rosales that once completed, TPLEX would bring economic growth to Rosales and soon would become Rosales City.

Presidential Management Staff (PMS) Chief Secretary Hermogenes Esperon Jr. said that in keeping with President Arroyo’s State Of the Nation Address (SONA) in 2006 and her announcement last Feb.6 to expedite the acquisition, through expropriation for the road right of way (RROW), a one-stop-shop Public Assistance Center was organized with concerned agencies to help in the acquisition and negotiation.

“Of the 154 SONA commitments, 47 national projects have been delivered “but many more will be completed by April to June,” Esperon said in an interview.

“You can see that with the Urban Luzon Beltway, there is a seamless high speed land travel from Batangas through the South Luzon Expressway through C5, to North Luzon Expressway and to Subic Clark Tarlac Expressway and finally TPLEX,” Esperon said.

The 88.58-kilometer expressway will come in two lanes, initially or until such time it reaches the 25,000 daily vehicular load when it will be expanded to four lanes.

It will comprise eight interchanges and 13 bridges which will spur development along the Northern corridor by providing easy access to the north’s economic growth areas that include Baguio City, a prime tourist spot where a special economic zone caters to international firms, like Texas Instruments Philippines Inc., and the Cordillera Region’s total exports.

Urdaneta City, the commercial center of eastern Pangasinan and where market complexes and cattle trading centers are located, and San Fernando City, where the Poro Point Special Economic Zone is located, will also benefit with the operation of the expressway.

The President came here with Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap and was met at the Air Transport Office landing zone by Presidential Adviser for Region 1 Ernie Mendoza, PIDC Chairman Morga, PIDC director George Consunji and by San Miguel Corp. president and chief executive Ramon Ang. (PNA)

hopefully maging city na ang rosales..

[flip2_0]

Originally Posted by victorlachica

meron na hiway from carmen/urdaneta via tayug going to viscaya

Originally Posted by phinkiss

take carmen-rosales exit then umingan-san jose-carranglan rd. and then nueva vizcaya na going to cagayan valley....

Same road lang ang labas nito pagdating ng Nueva Viscaya area from Pangasinan?

[kalbongdad]

ramdam ang kaunlaran....

[anonymous_filipino]

Originally Posted by Christian_123

Patay...DPWH ang contractor? If so, Expect a STAR tollway quality (which is horrible) with this new Expressway.

No. The DPWH is the implementing agency. BOT project ito. The proponent is the one who will construct TPLEX. The role of DPWH is the same as PNCC during the rehabilitation of both NLEX and SLEX.

[phinkiss]

Originally Posted by flip2_0

Same road lang ang labas nito pagdating ng Nueva Viscaya area from Pangasinan?

nope ung carmen-urdaneta is via tayug-san nicolas, tapos ung carmen-rosales is via san jose-lupao-caranglan rd.

[Christian_123]

Originally Posted by anonymous_filipino

No. The DPWH is the implementing agency. BOT project ito. The proponent is the one who will construct TPLEX. The role of DPWH is the same as PNCC during the rehabilitation of both NLEX and SLEX.

Still, If involved ang DPWH sa project na to. Patay tayo nyan, aabutin tayo ng syam syam bago matapos to.... No one freaking trust the DPWH at lalo na un PNCC

[tyronne]

Originally Posted by phinkiss

nope ung carmen-urdaneta is via tayug-san nicolas, tapos ung carmen-rosales is via san jose-lupao-caranglan rd.

So, hindi talaga dadaan to ng Villasis?

[anonymous_filipino]

Originally Posted by Christian_123

Still, If involved ang DPWH sa project na to. Patay tayo nyan, aabutin tayo ng syam syam bago matapos to.... No one freaking trust the DPWH at lalo na un PNCC

Wag po tayo mag-alala. The private proponent did not enter into a joint-venture with DPWH. Kaya hindi ito madedelay like what happened to SLEX. It is a BOT project, and the private proponent decides on the design of the expressway. Malabo ito maging tulad ng STAR Tollway. The private proponent consists of the top construction firms of the country, plus San Miguel Corp. and Metro Pacific unit Tollways Management Corp.