The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has committed to pursue the construction of the P25.2-billion Cavite-Tagaytay-Batangas Expressway (CTBEX), an unsolicited proposal by Metro Pacific Tollways South Corp. (MPTSC), a unit of Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC).
Manuel Bonoan, DPWH secretary, told reporters the CTBEX project will “push through.”
“I don’t think there will be conflict in alignment” with the Cavite-Batangas Expressway (CBEX) proposed by San Miguel Holdings Inc., “he added.
“The two projects will push through, but we will have to iron out some pending issues. So that both of them can start,” Bonoan said, referring to CTBEX and CBEX. “Let’s see how we can interconnect the two and plus the alignment.”
In 2018, DPWH granted the original proponent status to MPTSC and MPTC for the construction of CTBEX.
The unsolicited project proposal is an approximately 50.43-kilometer tollway that will connect Cavite and Batangas, with a spur road to Tagaytay City and ultimately terminating in Nasugbu and another spur road to Tuy in Batangas.
CTBEX, which is expected to decongest about 23,000 vehicles daily from the nearby thoroughfares, will start at the Silang East Interchange of the Cavite-Laguna Expressway (Calax), which is now open to the motoring public. The alignment will traverse the towns of Silang, Amadeo, Mendez, Alfonso and Tagaytay in Cavite and Nasugbu in Batangas.
