By Louella Desiderio (The
Philippine Star) | Updated May 6, 2016 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines -
Infrastructure projects C-5 South Link Expressway and the Integrated Transport
System (ITS)-Southwest are set to break
ground today.
Cavitex Infrastructure
Corp. (CIC) president Luigi Bautista said the company is looking to hold the
groundbreaking for the C-5 South Link Expressway.
Earlier, Bautista said
construction of the first phase of the C-5 South Link Expressway could begin by
July after the groundbreaking and the approvals are secured from the Toll
Regulatory Board and the Department of Public Works and Highways.
Phase 1 of the C-5 South
Link Expressway which costs P2.5 billion, covers C-5 Road in Taguig until
Moonwalk and Merville villages in Sucat, Parañaque.
Phase II meanwhile, covers
Merville to Coastal Road and is estimated to cost around P7.5 billion.
The new expressway which is
targeted for completion in 2019, is seen to provide ease in travel from Taguig,
Makati, Pasay, Pasig, Quezon City and other northern areas to Manila, Las
Piñas, and Cavite province, as well as give relief to travellers using
congested EDSA and C-5 Road arteries.
It will likewise provide a
seamless connection to Metro Pacific Investments Corp.’s Manila-Cavite
Expressway (Cavitex) road network, and to the 45-kilometer Cavite-Laguna
Expressway (Calex) awarded to the group under the public-private partnership
(PPP) program and is slated for completion in 2020.
CIC is a unit of MPIC which
is involved not just in toll roads but also in water, hospitals, power
generation and distribution, and rail.
Apart from CIC’s C-5 South
Link Expressway, the ITS-Southwest PPP project of MWM Terminals, a consortium
of Megawide Construction Corp. and WM Property Management Inc., is also set to
break ground today.
The P2.5 billion PPP
project involves the design, construction and financing of an ITS terminal
within a site area of 4.59-hectares along Cavitex.
The facility will have
passenger terminal buildings, arrival and departure bays, public information
systems, ticketing and baggage handling facilities, and park-ride facilities.
Through the project,
passengers coming from the Cavite side would be connected to other transport
systems such as the future Light Rail Transit Line 1 South Extension, city bus,
taxi, and other public utility vehicles that are serving inner Metro Manila.
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