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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...

very interesting...how backwards is checking the quality of concrete after it has been curing for...it doesnt matter - the inspections, documentation and testing samples should have been taken during the pour, at the proper intervals, by registered technicians so that when the completion date elapses, there would be nothing to gripe about except the traffic. the sad underlying thruth of the entire matter can probably be summed as follows: the contractors are undoubtedly backpeddling mightily to recover from severe cost overruns without having to cough up their performance bonds as well...and so they have devised this rue as a way to recover, in part, what they underbid...and then have the allegiance to bill it out as a few extra weeks worth of scrutinization and paperwork so that the taxpaying constituancy will at least be assured that its a nice, smooth road. its no wonder people dont show up to vote.... Gerald A. Estes, AIA Architect, ret. gaestes3@yahoo.com