Completion of the road linking the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) to the Daang Hari Road has been deferred to early next year. Ayala Corp managing director John Eric Francia said the P2.01-billion Daang Hari-SLEX Link is not complete yet.” “But we are making good progress, so we expect by February (next year) that we will be done with the road. We were pushing for December, but with all the weather that we are experiencing now, it’s hard to catch up. December would have been a fighting target, Francia added. The first public-private partnership (PPP) venture that the Aquino administration bid out, the Daang Hari-SLEX Link was supposed to have been completed in the third quarter of this year but the private contractor moved its timetable after it failed to agree with the South Luzon Tollways Corp (SLTC) on how the new road would intersect with SLEX. Controlled by San Miguel Corp, SLTC operates SLEX. Both parties agreed on the interconnection only in December last year. Ayala-owned AC Infrastructure Holdings Corp bagged the highway linking Cavite to Metro Manila through SLEX in December 2011. The road will provide southern Metro Manila with a high-standard highway within a 200-kilometer radius of the Philippine capital and will serve as an alternative route to Cavite, decongesting traffic in some parts of the province and Las Pinas and Muntinlupa, specifically the Alabang-Zapote Road and Commerce Avenue. According to the PPP Center, the project was 52 percent complete as of September 17.
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 23:14:22 +0000
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