06/07/2012 [ tribune.net.ph ]
The government’s third Public-Private
Partnership (PPP) priority project lined up for bidding this year was approved
by the National Economic Development Authority (Neda)recently.
Neda Board chairman President Aquino
gave the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) the go signal to put on
the bidding block the P15.86-billion NAIA Expressway project by June 2012.
The proposed NAIA Expressway project
involves the maintenance and improvement of the existing NAIA Expressway Phase
I road, the construction of phase 2 of the NAIA Expressway, the construction of
at-grade feeder roads leading to and from the Pagcor Entertainment City, the
operation and maintenance of the completed phase 1 and phase 2 as a toll road,
and the maintenance of the at-grade feeder road as a free road.
The alignment for phase 2 involves the
construction of a 4.83 kilometer road from the NAIA Expressway Phase 1
following the existing road alignment over Sales Avenue, Andrews Avenue,
Domestic Road and NAIA Road, and ends with entry/exit ramps at the Roxas
Boulevard/Manila Cavite Toll Expressway, the Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard and
Pagcor Entertainment City.
The total length of the NAIA
Expressway is 9.37 kilometers comprised of the 7.15 kilometer elevated portion
of phase 1 and phase 2 and its ramps, and the 2.22 kilometers at-grade portion.
The project will help ease traffic
going to and from the Manila International Airport at the NAIA complex, giving
high-speed access to NAIA Terminal 3 at 55 kilometers per hour. It will also
provide direct links to passenger Terminals 1 and 2, including the
International Cargo Terminal, increasing passenger traffic at the Manila
International Airport and increasing needed high-speed access route at the
Manila International Airport.
It will also seamlessly link the
Slex/Skyway to the Manila-Cavite Toll Expressway and both Roxas and Macapagal
Boulevard providing easy access to the Entertainment City of Pagcor.
The DPWH project will be implemented
under the BOT law and its IRRs using the Build Transfer and Operate (BTO)
contractual arrangement.
The NAIA Expressway project is part of
the priority projects being developed by the implementing agencies in close
coordination with the PPP Center.
PPP Center executive director Cosette
Canilao expressed satisfaction over the announcement of the invitation to
pre-qualify to bid for the project.
“The PPP Center congratulates the DPWH
for rolling out one of the country’s mega infrastructure projects under the PPP
program of government. This is indeed an achievement for the DPWH and the
program itself. We knew that it could work and now we are seeing projects being
rolled out. We are confident that we will hit our target of eight projects for
2012,” he said.
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