SCTEX AND TIPO GATE
The new expressway is very nice and welcomed, but I have some comments on passing gates in SBMA. The former SBMA toll station at Tipo should be discontinued and incooperated into the new SCTEX toll. If you come from Clark/Manila and stop to pay your tollfee, then 300 meters after you stop and pay P19! again, in another tollboot. At rush time and weekends, you can risk staying 10-15 minutes waiting to pay this. Plans at start of expressway, was that Tipo road should be part of SCTEX, but it dont looks like it now, understand SBMA want their 19 peso, but there must be an easier way to do this. I hope Lopez group will get contract on SCTEX also, so we can have a system with E-ticket also here (incl. Tipo) After a few km more driving, you will reach the Customs checkpoint, also a hangover from Freeport time. I can not understand the need for this gate, as I have pass it hundreds of times, but never been checked a single time. At least 2 gates each way should be opened for passenger/private...