The Department of Public Works and Highways said Thursday it expects to open another 7-kilometer stretch of Central Luzon Link Expressway in the first half of 2023.
CLLEX is a government-built road in Central Luzon that starts from the connection of Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway and Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway in Tarlac City to Cabanatuan City.
DPWH senior undersecretary Emil Sadain said the agency was working on the completion of additional 7-km. segment from Guimba-Aliaga Road intersection to San Juan Interchange that would extend to 25 km. the already accessible 18-km. section of the project.
The DPWH said that other than the 4-lane two-way expressway with design speed of 100 kilometers per hour, it was also undertaking the construction of three interchanges including Zaragoza, Aliaga and San Juan that would allow motorists from the secondary and provincial roads to access CLLEX.
When fully completed, the 30-kilometer CLLEX project would facilitate fast, safe, comfortable and reliable means of transport in Central Luzon as it forms an important east-west link for the expressway network of Region 3 to ensure a continuous seamless traffic flow for the motoring public from Metro Manila and vice versa passing through NLEX, SCTEX/TPLEX.
The project is part of the government’s vision of easing traffic congestion and will shorten the travel time between Tarlac City and Cabanatuan City from 70 minutes to 20 minutes.
It is one of the key infrastructures with funding assistance from the government of Japan through the Japan International Cooperation Agency and is included in the Luzon Spine Expressway Network projects.