MPCALA completes unsolicited toll road bid

MPCALA Holdings Inc. said it completed the submission of an unsolicited proposal to build the P23.7-billion Cavite-Tagaytay-Batangas Expressway Project.
“They [DPWH] confirmed. They actually wrote us confirming that all the requirements needed for a complete unsolicited proposal submission is complete,” MPCALA president and chief executive Luigi Bautista said.
“As soon as we get the original proponent status, we will go ahead and we will progress the design, make it more detailed so that when we come to the Swiss Challenge next year, which we think would be around July, we are ready for the Swiss Challenge,” he added.
CTBEx is a 46-kilometer expressway that will link Cavitex and CALAx at Silang, Cavite to Tagaytay City and terminate at Nasugbu, Batangas 
MPCALA is also constructing the P35-billon Cavite Laguna Expressway, a four-lane, 47-kilometer closed-system toll expressway connecting Cavitex and South Luzon Expressway. 
The expressway will start from Cavitex in Kawit, Cavite and end at the South Luzon Expressway-Mamplasan Interchange in Biñan, Laguna.
Bautista said that the construction of the first phase of Cavitex C5 South Link was also ongoing. It will link C5 and Merville, Parañaque by way of a flyover. The second phase will link Merville and Cavitex at a cost of P9.5 billion. 
Cavitex C5 South Link will allow residents of Cavite, Las Piñas and parts of Parañaque to avoid Edsa and take a direct link to and from C5 to Cavitex.
Bautista said the new expressway, which was expected to be completed in 2019, would add 40,000 to 45,000 vehicle traffic per day, on top of the 130,000 vehicles currently using Cavitex. 
C5 South Link will ultimately connect with R1 Expressway (Coastal Road) and provide fast, safe and convenient travel for motorists going to and from Parañaque, Las Piñas and Cavite and residents in Multinational, Moonwalk and Merville villages in Parañaque.