South Luzon Expressway project up

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"SLEX EXTENSION TO REACH LUCENA CITY"

BONDOC PENINSULA, Quezon - House Minority Floor Leader Danilo E. Suarez announced yesterday that the Southern Luzon Expressway (SLEX) will be extended to the municipality of Pagbilao in this province.

Suarez said that under the plan, the SLEX will have a new exit point and main entrance in Barangay Malicboy, Pagbilao.
He said San Miguel Corporation (SMC), which now operates the SLEX, has decided to construct the extension project on the boundary of Don Miguel Suarez Highway, connecting to Maharlika Highway in Pagbilao.

This information, Suarez said, was first shared with municipal and barangay officials in San Francisco town, this province, during the "Lakbay Aral" project there and in Unisan town last week.
Once completed, the SLEX extension project will allow motorists to travel between Malicboy, Pagbilao and Makati City in one-and-a-half hours' time.

It is also seen to ease up traffic congestion in the towns of Tiaong, Candelaria, and Sariaya and the city of Lucena.
Suarez said the original plan was to extend the SLEX somewhere between Lucena City and Sariaya town, this province, but as minority leader he bargained for SMC to extend the project all the way to Malicboy.

'SLEX Project Up'

Alaminos, Laguna (PNA) — Barangay (village) leaders, residents, property, and business owners here met early this week for a public hearing and dialogue cum consultation concerning real properties and residential lots that may be affected by the proposed South Luzon Expressway Extension project.

The SLEX tollway extension project is one of President Aquino’s flagship infrastructure projects which tentatively set groundbreaking rites in June 15 with full-blast construction beginning 2014.

The database gathered from the public consultations will guide the contractors and project proponents on the proposed SLEX extension from Calamba City to Lucena City spanning some 57.325 kilometers.

The SLEX extension connects five sections from Sto. Tomas to Makban, Makban to San Pablo City, San Pablo to Tiaong, Tiaong to Candelaria, and Candelaria to Lucena City.

The Malaysian-led South Luzon Tollways Corporation as the general contractor placed the estimated project cost at P9.5 billion or $220.93 million.

Rustico Danta, village chieftain of Barangay San Agustin, presided the dialogue-meeting and informal interaction with barangay constituents at the village hall with the assistance of the consultancy firm Science and Vision of Technology, Inc.

The gathering aimed at culling data and information on property and land ownership, road span, structures and industries that may be affected in the proposed construction sites.

The public hearing and consultations will also provide inputs to the road design, terrain and geographical mapping, soil testing and analysis and other requirements for the Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC).

Under the proposed SLEX extension project, about six villages in Alaminos are affected such as San Andres, San Juan, San Miguel, San Agustin and San Benito.

An engineering team would also be dispatched to conduct the road location survey to verify and validate the affected lots and undertake negotiations with lot and property owners for the road right-of-way (RRW).

According to Barangay Chairman Danta, the dialogue findings disclosed that the lots and land-ownerships of sites eyed for the tollway extension or within the scope of the road-right-of-way are covered under the Free Patent title.

Source: http://mb.com.ph/News/Provincial_News/14583/South_Luzon_Expressway_project_up#.UhnnuBvryQl