The NLEX-SCTEX toll plazas reported light traffic in recent weeks, even during the holiday rush, after the operator carried out measures to control congestion. NLEX Corporation is still enhancing its Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system to enable faster reading, upgrading antennas and...
Vic Manuel (PBA Images) After making a trade request the other day to his mother team Alaska Aces, PBA veteran forward Vic Manuel has a “short list” of teams as his preferred destination for the coming season. Danny Espiritu, a veteran agent who represents Manuel, said that the eight-year...
This year, NLEX Corporation continues building its three major road projects - Subic Freeport Expressway (SFEX) Capacity Expansion, Candaba Viaduct Upgrade and NLEX Connector. “These will improve traffic flow and connectivity, as well as promote road safety for hundreds of thousands of motorists...
JR Quinahan signs a contract extension with NLEX along with Raul Soyud and Michael Miranda. (Photo from PBA Images) NLEX formally signed JR Quinahan, Raul Soyud and Michael Miranda to contract extensions on Wednesday. Player agent Danny Espiritu posted separate photos of Quinahan and Soyud bumping...
Year-Ender On land, the lockdown grounded over 2 million commuters, leaving the country with prospects of a P520 Billion loss per annum if mass transport continues to operate at limited capacity. Thankfully, road infrastructure projects resumed as soon as quarantine restrictions eased. San Miguel...
Starting today (December 28) until January 15, 2021, the P1.6-billion expanded section of the 8.2-kilometer Subic Freeport Expressway (SFEX) will be temporarily opened for motorists coming in and out of the Subic Bay Freeport Zone for the holidays. The new SFEX, constructed beside the existing SFEX...
The North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) can handle the holiday travel rush, now at par with pre-pandemic levels. Operator NLEX Corporation and mother company, Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (MPTC) are confident about the system improvements they have made to control congestion at NLEX for the...
Cashless toll payment, or “full Radio Frequency Identification (RFID in the expressways, after whatever refinement will be mandated, is just the first stage”, according to Rodrigo E. Franco, president and CEO of the Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (MPTC). The final stage is the vision of the...
The largest group of real estate developers and other stakeholders in the housing sector has joined the bid of Valenzuela City Mayor Rex Gatchalian to urgently end the traffic mess caused by the RFID toll booth systems saying the actions taken so far by the local chief executive are both...
Glitches in the cashless toll system, like the one which North Luzon Expressway Corporation (NLEX Corp) admitted to, are "not new," the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB ) declared in its statement issued late last night (December 8, 2020). Such glitches are "subject to notices to correct", the TRB...
After Valenzuela City Mayor Rex Gatchalian suspended North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) Corp.'s business permit on December 7 due to traffic congestion resulting from its cashless toll collection scheme, the company said it “will implement several measures to resolve the Valenzuela issue to protect...
Day one of the 100 percent cashless toll implementation on Tuesday, December 1, had the usual glitches, coupled with traffic surges on the first workday of the week after a long weekend. And tollway concessionaires had more congestion on their gates, not because motorists didn't have Radio...
