Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. said it submitted to the Toll Regulatory Board a technical proposal for an expressway from Manila-Cavite Expressway to Sangley Point in Cavite City.
“We have a proposal. Now, it’s on the table of TRB. We submitted the technical proposal—the spur road going to Sangley,” MPTC chief finance officer Christopher Daniel Lizo said.
Lizo said the company was still awaiting the development of Sangley International Airport in Cavite.
Sangley Airport is set to open on Nov. 7 for the general aviation and turboprop cargo operations to ease the congestion at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. The provincial government of Cavite also plans to develop a $10-billion international airport in Sangley Point.
Six groups already bought bid documents for the construction of an international airport in Sangley Point, according to Cavite Governor Jonvic Remulla.
Remulla said Metro Pacific Investments Corp., the parent company of MPTC, DM Consunji Inc. and China Construction Co. were among the six parties that purchased bid documents for the $10-billion international airport project. He did not name the three other interested bidders.
Under its proposal, MPTC plans to construct Segment 5 of Cavitex”•a 22-kilometer road that will link Kawit to Noveleta to Sangley and then to Tanza in Cavite.
It expects to start the construction of the first phase of the project—the expressway going to Sangley—by early 2021.
Cavitex is a 14-kilometer expressway linking Manila and Cavite province.
MPCala Holdings Inc., a unit of MPTC, earlier said the Laguna segment of the P35.4-billion Cavite Laguna Expressway was set to open to motorists this month.
The first segment starts at the Mamplasan Barrier and passes through Laguna Technopark Interchange, Laguna Boulevard Interchange all the way to Santa Rosa-Tagaytay Interchange.
The construction of the Cavite side is expected to be completed by 2022.
MPCALA tapped Leighton Holdings of Australia to build the Cavite side and local contractor DMCI Consunji Inc. to construct the Laguna segment.
The Cavite segment will comprise 27 kilometers of the 45-kilometer Cavite-Laguna Expressway.
It starts from Kawit, Cavite and traverses the Imus Open Canal, Governor’s Drive, Dasmariñas, Aguinaldo Highway and Silang which will connect to the Laguna segment from Sta. Rosa exiting to Mamplasan toward South Luzon Expressway.