Philippine expressway system

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8kEkaDzxEE&feature=emb_logo

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https://youtu.be/5F1cfOpVa-E

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Asphalt installation on the Skyway segment between Paco and Pandacan. Photos from Pinoy Joyride/dmitrivalencia

https://www.facebook.com/pinoyjoyride/posts/4123349714347106

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New video of the restarted construction for the Skyway southern extension beyond Alabang (to Susana Heights)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBA_sVp2qig&feature=emb_logo

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Engineers inspecting construction work on the Skyway at the future interchange with NLEX Connector in Pandacan.  Ramps to Tomas Claudio Street also are part of this section.

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From this article:
https://malaya.com.ph/index.php/news_special_feature/decongesting-edsa/

A good map of the expressway construction in progress in Metro Manila, showing how EDSA will essentially have its traffic load taken off by 3 different north-south expressways (NLEX Connector, Metro Manila Skyway Stage 3, and the C-6 outer beltway) in just a few years.

[TheStranger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyU1QvHd7BE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEKWRmfWwHc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgj6ovcyf44

In that third video (a drive from the Filinvest exit in Alabang north to the current temporary terminus in Paco), a distance sign for multiple exits is located right after the Skyway bends to the northeast where Shakey's Pizza used to be, at Osmena and Quirino.  The distance sign is as follows:

Nagtahan 2km (1.2 miles)
Quezon Avenue 8 km (5 miles)
Balintawak 13km (8 miles)

What intrigues me greatly about that setup:

- will this sign itself be temporary?  Given that Nagtahan is not going to be the last exit in the area at all, there are at least one or two more slated on that stretch depending on the final ramp configuration of the Tomas Claudio and NLEX Connector interchanges, and there is also one exit in Quezon City (E. Rodriguez) before Quezon Avenue.

- those distances also are a good test of how much quicker travel will be on the Skyway between the Magallanes Interchange in southern Makati and the Balintawak Cloverleaf, as opposed to the decades of inter-city and local shopping and commute traffic opting to use EDSA.

- Not sure if any of the three-cities-ahead signage familiar here in the US is there yet, this seems to be a hybrid of that and of upcoming-exits signage.  When the Skyway is extended to New Manila International Airport in Bulacan, I could see that as a future control city - but it would be a bit of a change in practice from the hyper-local control cities currently in use on EDSA.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx_m7wup1fY&feature=emb_logo

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Pinoy Joyride has released an update on the CLLEX expressway in Central Luzon.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmV9rAZVyKU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ORjy0SrMxM

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From Pinoy Joyride/dmitrivalencia: Lane markings on Skyway Stage 3 in Pandacan right where it begins to follow the Pasig and San Juan Rivers

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From SkyscraperCity forums: a map of the segment of the NLEX Segment 8.2/C-5 ring road that is awaiting right of way being secured.
https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/nlex-segment-8-2-mindanao-avenue-to-luzon-avenue.2222126/

[bing101]

Pinoy Joyride does a tour of San Fernando, Pampanga to the NLEX interchange.

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Article on how some of the educational work San Miguel Corporation has set up for residents of Bulacan who are being displaced by SMC's New Manila International Airport has cultivated possible crew members to handle Pasig River dredging as preparation for the Pasing River Expressway/PAREX project:

http://pageone.ph/smc-to-employ-taliptip-residents-for-its-tullahan-bulacan-pasig-river-cleanup-projects/

Also mentioned is dredging of the Tullahan River, which has been shown in planning maps to form part of the corridor for a possible Metro Manila Skyway extension to NMIA (specifically from the Balintawak toll plaza west to Malabon).

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Cool video showing the progression of the Metro Manila/Luzon expressway system, from 0 through routes inside the EDSA perimeter from the 1970s until now, to the ongoing NLEX Connector and Skyway Stage 3 projects within Manila itself and the C-5 and C-6 belt routes/bypasses, and the now-proposed Port Link Expressway, Pasig River Expressway (as well as the C-3 missing link proposal from San Juan to Makati/Pasay that seems to be stillborn for now).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTG-TGQXbak
Here's a map from that video of what was actively being pursued in July, some weeks before San Miguel Corporation made PAREX one of their priority projects - note the lack of east-west corridors in this, beyond the northernmost section of C-5/NLEX Segment 8.2 that includes a connection to SEMME/C-6.



With the Pasig River Expressway and the La Mesa Parkway/North Luzon East Expressway, here's what this would look like - modifications from me, especially to show where San Miguel has aligned the C-6 expressway (much closer to Antipolo than to C-5) and to highlight completed sections of C-5 and Skyway Stage 3:

[TheStranger]

New photo from Pinoy Joyride/dmitrivalencia of signage at Skyway Stage 3's north terminus along NLEX near the Balintawak toll plaza:



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More photos of Skyway Stage 3, from a Skyscrapercity moderator. This set is of northbound onramp construction at G. Araneta Avenue and Landargun in Quezon City, near a Shell station.

https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/metro-manila-skyway.1492516/post-171220721





Google street view of the area:
https://www.google.com/maps/@14.6110879,121.0170678,3a,75y,47.65h,103.9t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1sW4oZCfWEqKfBdo8YB74T5A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i36

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Also from Pinoy Joyride/dmitrivalencia: new onramp from NLEX East Service Road to northbound NLEX, right at the area of the Camachile Flyover:

https://www.facebook.com/pinoyjoyride/posts/4137172376298173

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From dmitrivalencia/Pinoy Joride - photos of ramp construction at the Nagtahan exit off of Skyway Stage 3 in Paco:

https://www.facebook.com/pinoyjoyride/posts/4141973482484729?__cft__

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