Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (MPTC) today said motorists who don’t have RFIDs by November 2 will still be allowed passage in NLEX, SCTEX, CAVITEX, C5 Link and CALAX, but will be directed to the RFID installation lanes where they can have their RFID stickers installed. The corresponding toll fee charge for their passage on that
An average of 30,109 vehicles per day, mostly from the logistics industry, have benefitted from the travel convenience brought by the NLEX Harbor Link, four months after the completion of its 2.6-kilometer section between the cities of Caloocan and Navotas. Traffic reports also showed that around 7,222 vehicles were diverted from NLEX Balintawak southbound which
NLEX Corporation is undertaking several physical and system improvements in its toll plazas to ensure that 100% RFID transactions will be smoothly implemented in NLEX-SCTEX starting November 2. These improvements include the installation of 303 new canopy signages and 66 units of plaza lighting. Of the 303 signages, 100 were completed first week of October
The NLEX Corporation today announced it is hiring more than 1,500 technical and skilled workers to accelerate the construction of the 8-kilometer NLEX Connector. NLEX President and General Manager J. Luigi L. Bautista said priority is being given to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who have been displaced and unemployed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Being
The Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (MPTC) has assured its readiness to comply with the Department of Transportation’s (DOTr) mandate to fully transition to electronic toll collection system, as the toll lanes along its expressway network are undergoing progressive conversion to make them RFID-enabled in time for November 2020 implementation. The assurance was made during the
With digital transactions becoming a necessity in the “new normal” setup, local government officials in Bulacan and Pampanga are encouraging the public to go for cashless toll payments at NLEX-SCTEX as a measure to prevent the transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19. In its series of dialogues with local government units, NLEX Corporation discussed
The Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (MPTC) declared its support for Department Order 2020-012 issued by the Department of Transportation (DOTr) that requires expressway-bound vehicles to enter via cashless, contactless transactions “to mitigate the transmission of COVID-19 and subsequently as a means to ensure a more efficient flow of traffic.” In its statement of support, MPTC
Public and private sectors in the North and Central Luzon regions have expressed their full support for the ongoing upgrading of the NLEX Candaba Viaduct, the decades-old elevated highway connecting Pulilan, Bulacan, and Apalit, Pampanga. Consisting of two 5-km.-long independent bridges, the Candaba Viaduct will undergo major rehabilitation along the Manila-bound carriageway that will last
The battery-powered Easytrip tags in use since 2005 at the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) and the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEX) will be phased out by September 30, 2020 as NLEX Corporation transitions its cashless payment system to the radio frequency identification or RFID platform. NLEX Corporation will install for free small, paper-thin and easy to attach
The capacity expansion of the 8.2-kilometer Subic Freeport Expressway (SFEX), a major infrastructure project aimed at easing travel to and from the freeport zone, is significantly progressing with its completion standing at 50 percent. NLEX Corporation said construction activities for the P1.6-billion project are in various stages of development and seen to be completed by
