NLEX C3-Anda Circle Expressway project requires TRB Go signal.

NLEX Corporation is awaiting approval from the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) to implement the first phase of the proposed P92-billion NLEX-CAVITEX Port Expressway Link project.

“From Section 1, Circumferential Road 3 (C3) to the Anda Circle section, we are trying to address the TRB’s questions about the legal framework for how this will be implemented,” said J.J. Luigi L. Bautista says The commercial world In a recent interview.

“Hopefully we can get approval from TRB, and then we can start implementing it already,” he added.

The 15-kilometer (km) NLEX-Cavitex Port Expressway link project is essentially a joint unsolicited proposal with the Manila-Cavitex Expressway (CAVITEX) that was submitted to the North Luzon Expressway (DPWH) Department of Public Works in 2019.

The project has three sections: 5.7-km C3 Road to Anda Circle, 4.8-km connection from CAVITEX to Buendia Avenue and 4.6-km Buendia Avenue from Anda Circle.

“We thought it was ripe The first division (we thought the first division was already ripe for implementation), so we went to TRB to let them know that we were ready to implement the project, but it was still part of a completely unsolicited proposal, “said Mr Bautista.

The NLEX-CAVITEX Port Expressway Link project, once completed, will “stimulate development in Manila, Calucan, Malabon and Navotas and surrounding areas,” the DPWH said on its website.

It is seen to reduce traffic congestion in Metro Manila, give trucks 24/7 alternative routes and solve truck-ban problems, provide better access to Manila Port (North Harbor) and airports (Ninoy Aquino International Airport and Clark Airport) and with full SLEX. Connection to NLEX.

The project is expected to reduce travel time from SLEX to NLEX from two hours to just 20 minutes, travel time from Clark to Calamba from about three hours to one hour 40 minutes, and benefit at least 35,000 drivers or vehicles per day.

NLEX Corporation is Metro Pacific Tollway Corp. Part of, Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) Tollway Unit.

MPIC Hong Kong-based First Pacific Co., Ltd. is one of the three major Philippine units, the others being Felix Mining Corporation and PLDT, Inc. Hastings Holdings, Inc., MediaQuest Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of PLDT Beneficial Trust Fund. ., Has a majority stake The commercial world Through the Philippine Star Group, which controls it. – RJ L Balinbin