Two months after the government issued the notice of award (NOA) of the North Luzon Expressway-South Luzon Expressway (NLEX-SLEX) Connector Road Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Project to the Manila North Tollways Corporation (MNTC), the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and MNTC, signed the concession agreement on November 23, 2016.
DPWH Secretary Mark A. Villar led the signing of the PPP project’s concession agreement with the private partner representative, Manila North Tollways Corporation President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Rodrigo E. Franco.
Once completed, the PPP project will reduce the travel duration from NLEX to SLEX from the current two hours into 20-30 minutes. MNTC will construct, operate and maintain the Php23 billion pesos unsolicited project, which is an eight-kilometer four-lane elevated expressway over the Philippine National Railway (PNR) right of way (ROW).
The connector road will start from from C3 Road in Caloocan through Manila crossing España towards Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), Sta. Mesa connecting Metro Manila Skyway Stage 3 (MMSS3). It is expected to decongest traffic in Metro Manila by providing an alternative to C-5 Road, Efipanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA), and other major thoroughfares.
