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SCTEX continues to draw praises
Author: BCDA
Posted: September 02, 2009 | Category: SCTEX
“The SCTEX is a great piece of work for a country that is deeply embroiled in many challenges.”
This quotable quote from an article in the Subic Bay Review of the Institute for Business and Management Studies virtually sums up a common observation about the country’s newest toll way among various sectors of society.
SCTEX, of course, refers to the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway, also the country’s longest toll road at 93.7 kilometers traversing the growth corridor of Central Luzon. This world-class highway, implemented by the state-run Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA), stands to be the single greatest high-impact legacy of the Arroyo administration.
Noted columnist Tito Hermoso, who has cited the SCTEX in many of his articles, also described the road infrastructure as a “huge success.”
A Manila-based broadsheet could not help but compare the SCTEX with much older thoroughfares in the metropolis. “Driving through the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEX) ignites a sense of pride, the type that one feels when something good is taking place in a part of the country. It feels good to drive through a world-class road, without the usual blight and grimness that often pockmarks road travel across the country—including parts of EDSA, Osmeña Highway and even Roxas Boulevard in Metro Manila,” the newspaper stated in an editorial.
SCTEX’s relevance to the people’s economic life goes beyond safe, comfortable and speedy travel.
This was articulated by Benguet Rep. Samuel Dangwa who, speaking on behalf of the vegetable growers and traders in the mountain province, said that the SCTEX heightened business activities among his people, resulting in lower costs at marketplaces in Metro Manila and other lowland regions in Luzon.
“Malaking tulong ang SCTEX sa transportasyon ng mga produktong agrikultural ng Benguet, Mountain province at Ifugao lalo pa’t 70% ng pangangailangan ng bansa para sa semi-temperate vegetables ay galing dito (The SCTEX is a big help in transporting the agricultural products of Benguet and Ifugao (provinces) that produces 70 percent of the country’s needs for semi-temperate vegetables),” Dangwa said.
On the other hand, Presidential Adviser Edgardo Pamintuan looks at the bigger picture of Central Luzon transforming into a haven for domestic and international investors with the SCTEX already in place.
By and large, President Arroyo’s leadership mustered satisfactory rating insofar as implementation of the SCTEX project was concerned.
Columnist Rey Gamboa acknowledged that the thrust of the Arroyo administration to develop Subic and Clark as Central Luzon’s logistics hub received a dramatic boost with the completion of the SCTEX, adding that the two growth areas significantly increased their employment generation program, while traffic volume at the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA) in Clark substantially increased.
“Surely, even the harshest administration critics will have to give a passing grade for the RORO (roll on-roll off), SCTEX, the new refurbished airports and other infrastructures that were constructed during her term,” wrote Gamboa’s fellow columnist Yoly Villanueva-Ong.
Among such critics was former Philippine Tourism Administrator Lito Banayo who noted that the infrastructure components of a growing economy are already in place in Central Luzon, apparently referring to the SCTEX and the DMIA. He viewed the SCTEX as a “marvelous piece of engineering.”
This quotable quote from an article in the Subic Bay Review of the Institute for Business and Management Studies virtually sums up a common observation about the country’s newest toll way among various sectors of society.
SCTEX, of course, refers to the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway, also the country’s longest toll road at 93.7 kilometers traversing the growth corridor of Central Luzon. This world-class highway, implemented by the state-run Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA), stands to be the single greatest high-impact legacy of the Arroyo administration.
Noted columnist Tito Hermoso, who has cited the SCTEX in many of his articles, also described the road infrastructure as a “huge success.”
A Manila-based broadsheet could not help but compare the SCTEX with much older thoroughfares in the metropolis. “Driving through the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEX) ignites a sense of pride, the type that one feels when something good is taking place in a part of the country. It feels good to drive through a world-class road, without the usual blight and grimness that often pockmarks road travel across the country—including parts of EDSA, Osmeña Highway and even Roxas Boulevard in Metro Manila,” the newspaper stated in an editorial.
SCTEX’s relevance to the people’s economic life goes beyond safe, comfortable and speedy travel.
This was articulated by Benguet Rep. Samuel Dangwa who, speaking on behalf of the vegetable growers and traders in the mountain province, said that the SCTEX heightened business activities among his people, resulting in lower costs at marketplaces in Metro Manila and other lowland regions in Luzon.
“Malaking tulong ang SCTEX sa transportasyon ng mga produktong agrikultural ng Benguet, Mountain province at Ifugao lalo pa’t 70% ng pangangailangan ng bansa para sa semi-temperate vegetables ay galing dito (The SCTEX is a big help in transporting the agricultural products of Benguet and Ifugao (provinces) that produces 70 percent of the country’s needs for semi-temperate vegetables),” Dangwa said.
On the other hand, Presidential Adviser Edgardo Pamintuan looks at the bigger picture of Central Luzon transforming into a haven for domestic and international investors with the SCTEX already in place.
By and large, President Arroyo’s leadership mustered satisfactory rating insofar as implementation of the SCTEX project was concerned.
Columnist Rey Gamboa acknowledged that the thrust of the Arroyo administration to develop Subic and Clark as Central Luzon’s logistics hub received a dramatic boost with the completion of the SCTEX, adding that the two growth areas significantly increased their employment generation program, while traffic volume at the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA) in Clark substantially increased.
“Surely, even the harshest administration critics will have to give a passing grade for the RORO (roll on-roll off), SCTEX, the new refurbished airports and other infrastructures that were constructed during her term,” wrote Gamboa’s fellow columnist Yoly Villanueva-Ong.
Among such critics was former Philippine Tourism Administrator Lito Banayo who noted that the infrastructure components of a growing economy are already in place in Central Luzon, apparently referring to the SCTEX and the DMIA. He viewed the SCTEX as a “marvelous piece of engineering.”
