NLEX Corp. said the construction of the first section of the North Luzon Expressway-South Luzon Expressway (NLEx-SLEx) connector road will begin by the second week of November.
“[On the] connector road, we had a final meeting last week with the contractor, so we made final our appointment of DMCI, D.M. Consunji as the contractor for the NLEX Connector Project Section 1. Because the connector project is divided into two sections, we will start with Section 1 first,” Luigi L. Bautista, president and general manager of NLEX, told reporters on Oct. 24.
Mr. Bautista said the contract with construction giant D.M. Consunji, Inc. will be signed next week.
“Next week, we will sign the contract and then the first bored pile that will be executed will be second week of November. So between today and the second week of November, DMCI will start preparing for mobilization.”
Mr. Bautista said the construction on the NLEx-SLEx connector road will take about 20 months.
The P23.3-billion 8-kilometer toll road linking the tail of NLEx Harbor Link Segment 10 in C3 Road, Caloocan City to PUP Sta. Mesa, Manila aims to provide an alternate route for trucks coming from the port area. From Sta. Mesa, vehicles traversing the expressway may connect to the Metro Manila Skyway Stage 3 through an elevated road.
Mr. Bautista said the Section 1 covers five kilometers of the entire 8-kilometer project. “That’s from Caloocan connecting to C3 all the way to España, so five kilometers,” he said.
NLEX has completed preliminary works on the project after a ground-breaking ceremony held last February. Preliminary works included the ground survey, finalization of design, and clearing of roads through tree cutting and relocation of informal settlers.
The target is to open the expressway by December 2021. Once operational, it is expected to reduce travel time from NLEx to SLEx to 20 minutes from the usual two hours. It will have a capacity of 35,000 motorists daily.
“We will open by phases. For the second phase, by next month we will start the bid process to select the contractor for Section 2. So maybe by around February next year, we would have appointed also the contractor for Section 2,” Mr. Bautista said.
NLEX is part of the Metro Pacific Tollways Corp., the tollways unit of Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC).
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