Metro Pacific Tollways South said its proposed P25.24-billion Cavite-Tagaytay-Batangas Expressway remains on the table and still very much “alive” despite the rival expressway project proposed in parallel by San Miguel Corp.
“There are ongoing discussions, it is still live. We have not given up,” Raul Ignacio, MPT South president and general manager said.
According to him, MPT South remains in discussion with the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) who then submits its comments to the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) on their proposal.
Also according to him, the DPWH has said that the projects can co-exist, which was why “we are still in talks with the government, the DPWH”.
Public Works Secretary Manuel Bonoan earlier said the CTBEX project would “push through” and ruled out any “conflict in alignment” with the parallel Cavite Batangas Expressway project proposed by San Miguel Holdings Inc.
“The two projects will push through, but we will have to iron out some pending issues so that both of them can start,” Bonoan said of both the CTBEX and CBEX.
The DPWH in 2018 granted the MPTC original proponent status for the construction of CTBEX, which is a 50.43-kilometer expressway that will connect Cavite and Batangas, with a spur road to Tagaytay City ultimately terminating in Nasugbu with a spur road to Tuy, Batangas.
CTBEX can accommodate 23,000 vehicles daily, decongest the nearby thoroughfares and will start from the Silang East Interchange of the Cavite-Laguna Expressway which is now open to the motoring public.
The alignment will traverse the towns of Silang, Amadeo, Mendez, Alfonso and Tagaytay in Cavite and Nasugbu in Batangas.
The MPTC Group operates a total 240.6 kilometers of expressways with 43.1 kilometers under construction and thus far invested a total $3.06 billion.
It operates the 105-kilometer North Luzon Expressway, the 94-kilometer Subic Clark-Tarlac Expressway and the 14-kilometer Manila-Cavite Expressway. It also operates the 8.5-km. Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway in Cebu.
MPTC is also building the 45-kilometer Cavite Laguna Expressway project seen completed by 2024. Its operational segments stretches from Mamplasan in Binan, with interchanges at Laguna Technopark, Laguna Boulevard, Santa Rosa-Tagaytay Road up to Silang East Interchange.
The C5 Link is a 7.7-kilometer two-by-three lane expressway that will connect CAVITEX R1 to C5 Road in Taguig—is still under construction.
MPTC is similarly constructing 8 kilometers of the NLEX Connector Road and 2.60 kilometers of the NLEX Segment 10 R10.
It has pending unsolicited proposals to the DPWH to build the P92-billion 15.1-km NLEX-Cavitex Port Expressway Project and the P71.9-billion 19.4-km. C5 Expressway Project.
