Manila North Tollways Corp. submitted an unsolicited proposal to the Duterte administration to build an overhead expressway around C5 to decongest Metro Manila.
“We are looking at few other [unsolicited] projects that we hope we will be able to submit proposals to the government. Actually we have one project that we submitted,” MNTC president and chief executive Rodrigo Franco said.
Franco said the company submitted to the Toll Regulatory Board and Public Works Department an unsolicited proposal to construct an elevated expressway around C5.
C5 Road, the second most important transportation corridor after Edsa, serves as a beltway around the city of Manila as it traverses the cities of Parañaque, Taguig, Makati, Pasig, Marikina, Quezon City and Valenzuela.
No other details were provided on the full concept of the project.
Franco said the company needed to complete first the P8.6-billion NLEx C5-Link Project before undertaking a new elevated expressway in C5 under unsolicited mode.
The 7.85-kilometer C5 link will start from the end of Segment 8.1 at Mindanao Ave. and end at Commonwealth Ave. in Quezon City.
The C5 link aims to decongest Metro Manila as it would provide alternative access to mainline North Luzon Expressway further east of Metro Manila, bypassing Edsa and Balintawak toll plaza.
Franco said for public private partnership projects, his company was interested in the P14.2-billion CLEX Phase 2 and Plaridel Bypass Toll Road Project.
CLEX Phase 2 is an extension of CLEX Phase I and will connect Cabanatuan City to San Jose City, also in Nueva Ecija. Phase 1 will be constructed by the government with funding from the government of Japan.
The Plaridel Bypass Toll Road is a 23.3-kilometer road starting at the Balagtas interchange in NLEx up to San Rafael, Bulacan.
The road project traverses five towns of Bulacan, including Balagtas, Guiguinto, Plaridel, Bustos and San Rafael. It involves the conversion of the existing road into a toll road.