NLEX Corp. is still pursuing an unsolicited proposal to build a P100-billion toll road to link North Luzon Expressway and Manila-Cavite Expressway.
“It was submitted early last year. It’s a complicated [project]. DPWH is taking a careful way of reviewing it,” said NLEX president Luigi Bautista over the weekend.
“The project cost is still not final but based on our estimate, it’s about P95 billion to P100 billion. It’s a huge project,” he added.
The proposed NLEx-Cavitex Port Expressway, jointly submitted by NLEX and Cavitex Infrastructure Corp., is a 15-kilometer toll road with six lanes (2×3 configuration) and elevated and tunnel portions from NLEx Segment 10 up to Cavitex. This would provide an ideal truck route directly linked to Manila’s Port Area.
The first phase of the project will stretch from C3 Road to Anda Circle (5.7 kilometers) while the second phase is a connection from Cavitex to Buendia (4.8 kilometers). The last phase stretches from Buendia Ave. to Anda Circle (4.6 km).
The project will reduce truck traffic within its limited capacity road network and significantly contribute to the decongestion of the metropolis, according to parent Metro Pacific Tollways Corp.
Cavitex is a 14-kilometer toll expressway linking Manila to the southern province of Cavite.
MPTC is also building the NLEx-SLEx Connector Road, an eight-kilometer, four-lane toll road linking the North Luzon Expressway and South Luzon Expressway, passing through Metro Manila and using the existing Philippine National Railway alignment as its route.
The group is constructing the P35-billion Cavite Laguna Expressway, a four-lane, 45-kilometer closed-system toll expressway connecting Cavitex and South Luzon Expressway.
The expressway will start from Cavitex in Kawit, Cavite, and end at the South Luzon Expressway-Mamplasan Interchange in Biñan, Laguna.
The Laguna side of Calax, the 10.7-kilometer stretch that starts from the Mamplasan entry and the Santa Rosa-Tagaytay Interchange, opened to the public on Feb. 9 this year.
MPCALA Holdings Inc. earlier secured an original proponent status (OPS) from the Department of Public Works and Highways to build Cavite-Tagaytay-Batangas Expressway, a 46-kilometer road worth P25.24 billion.
The project will link Cavite Expressway and Cavite Laguna Expressway in Silang, Cavite to Tagaytay City and terminate in Nasugbu, Batangas.