The Department of Public Works and Highways expressed optimism the National Economic and Development Authority will approve the P22.4-billion Cavite-Tagaytay-Batangas Expressway project within the year.
“It’s one of our priority projects. I think I’m confident we can get it [approved] soon, definitely within this year,” Public Works Secretary Mark Villar said.
Villar said he was in direct coordination with NEDA Secretary Karl Chua to speed up the approval process for the CTBEx project.
Once it approved by the NEDA board, the proposed CTBex project will undergo Swiss Challenge.
CTBEX is a 50.4-kilometer expressway that will connect Cavite and Batangas, with a spur road to Tagaytay City and ultimately terminating in Nasugbu, and another spur road to Tuy, Batangas.
The government granted the original proponent status for CTBEX to Metro Pacific Tollways South Corp. in July 2018.
CTBEX is seen to decongest about 23,000 vehicles daily from the road of Cavite, Laguna and Batangas.
The project will start at Silang East Interchange of the Cavite-Laguna Expressway. The alignment will traverse the towns of Silang, Amadeo, Mendez, Alfonso and Tagaytay in Cavite and Nasugbu in Batangas.
MPCALA Holdings Inc., a subsidiary of MPTC, is also constructing the P35-billion 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 SLEX-Mamplasan Interchange in Biñan, Laguna.
MPCALA Holdings opened to the public the Laguna segment of the Cavite Laguna Expressway in October 2019.
The MPIC Group operates North Luzon Expressway, Subic-Tarlac Expressway and Manila-Cavite Toll Expressway.