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Philippine expressway system
bing101:
--- Quote from: TheStranger on January 05, 2017, 12:49:26 PM ---
--- Quote from: Chris on January 05, 2017, 12:25:51 PM ---The DPWH introduced expressway numbering in 2014. For example E1 is the North Luzon Expressway. Did you see any of those route numbers signed?
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I saw maybe one sign for a Route 68 on local roads south of Manila. Otherwise, nope, it's primarily expressway names (i.e. SCTEX, NLEX).
Wonder if this will change once the North Luzon West Expressway project is complete (which is essentially the SCTEX and TPLEX as one road) and when the following two projects are finished on NLEX: north extension for a more direct connection with it, and south extension through Manila on the Harbor Link. I could see the SLEX/Metro Manila Skyway/NLEX being one route number (maybe with the Harbor Link having a separate number to represent being an alternate route in Manila) and the North Luzon West Expressway being another.
The Harbor Link and the Metro Manila Skyway Stage 3 create a parallel setup that is like a smaller scale version of the Hollywood/Golden State pair in Los Angeles (or 670 and 70 in Kansas City). EDSA (kinda like New Jersey's Route 17 on steroids) has been severely overridden with traffic for years due to the lack of such a through limited-access route, something that will change dramatically in the coming months.
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Wait Isn't Skyway3 also supposed to be like the Manila version of the I-710 gap too.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEK4ZJl3dlE
Here is the newest expressway in the Philippines and it opened in December 2016 Also the West Valley Fault has been talked about as Manila's version of the Hayward Fault was nearby one of the expressways.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qce12Xhiop0
bing101:
--- Quote from: TheStranger on January 05, 2017, 12:49:26 PM ---
--- Quote from: Chris on January 05, 2017, 12:25:51 PM ---The DPWH introduced expressway numbering in 2014. For example E1 is the North Luzon Expressway. Did you see any of those route numbers signed?
--- End quote ---
I saw maybe one sign for a Route 68 on local roads south of Manila. Otherwise, nope, it's primarily expressway names (i.e. SCTEX, NLEX).
Wonder if this will change once the North Luzon West Expressway project is complete (which is essentially the SCTEX and TPLEX as one road) and when the following two projects are finished on NLEX: north extension for a more direct connection with it, and south extension through Manila on the Harbor Link. I could see the SLEX/Metro Manila Skyway/NLEX being one route number (maybe with the Harbor Link having a separate number to represent being an alternate route in Manila) and the North Luzon West Expressway being another.
The Harbor Link and the Mero Manila Skyway Stage 3 create a parallel setup that is like a smaller scale version of the Hollywood/Golden State pair in Los Angeles (or 670 and 70 in Kansas City). EDSA (kinda like New Jersey's Route 17 on steroids) has been severely overridden with traffic for years due to the lack of such a through limited-access route, something that will change dramatically in the coming months.
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//www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgneIKE5LyM
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=l562_0VkHF0
Apparently in rural areas of the Philippines Highways are numbered like state Highways. Except in this case its AH-26 all videos are from Pinoy Joyride.
bing101:
http://pba.inquirer.net/teams/nlex-road-warriors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLEX_Road_Warriors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Luzon_Expressway
Interestingly the investors of North Luzon Expressway even manage to own a Basketball team in the PBA.
TheStranger:
--- Quote from: bing101 on January 08, 2017, 05:53:50 PM ---
Wait Isn't Skyway3 also supposed to be like the Manila version of the I-710 gap too.
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Not really.
1. Skyway Stage 3 is under construction, using the right of way of existing roads for an elevated structure above (as opposed to the proposed 710 tunnel and the previously proposed 710 surface route).
2. I don't think it was proposed 50+ years ago
bing101:
Oddly enough Manila Skyway was supposed to have a double Decker section and it had some resemblance of Alaska Viaduct in Seattle or the Cypress Freeway in Oakland pre-Loma Prieta quake.
But wait Manila has their own version of Hayward Fault? How is this double Decker section supposed to meet quake standards. Like the Bay Area, Manila has sections of their city in Bay Mud.
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