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| DPWH Secretary Mark Villar with Caloocan City Mayor Oscar Malapitan with NLEX officials during the inaugural drive-thru at the NLEX Harbor Link Malabon Exit. (Photo courtesy of NLEX) |
QUEZON CITY, March 4 (PIA) -- Motorists, commuters, and truckers bound for the cities of Malabon, Caloocan and Navotas are set to enjoy some relief from daily traffic gridlock of Metro Manila with the opening of the NLEX Harbor Link Malabon Exit.
The recently opened Malabon Exit is newest access from Caloocan Interchange, C3 Road to Dagat-Dagatan Avenue.
“About 30,000 motorists per day will stand to benefit from this new road once the entire Harbor Link C3-R10 Section is fully completed, helping reduce travel time for the traffic-weary public, providing more turnaround trips for the trucking sector, and growing businesses for merchants and local communities,” DPWH Secretary Mark Villar said during the during the inaugural drive-thru held February 21, 2020.
“In the meantime, we are opening this new Malabon Exit to provide immediate relief from the daily bumper-to-bumper traffic in the CAMANAVA area especially along C3 Road. When we open the entire C3-R10 Section next month, travel time between NLEX and the CAMANAVA area will be reduced from 60 to 10 minutes, or a savings of 50 minutes,” he added.
NLEX Corporation president and general manager J. Luigi L. Bautista explained that the tollway company decided to open the Malabon Exit a month before the whole NLEX Harbor Link C3-R10 Section is completed in response to the clamor of motorists for immediate relief from heavy traffic along the CAMANAVA area while construction works are still ongoing for the rest of the Harbor Link alignment.
The Malabon Exit is part of the 2.6-kilometer elevated NLEX Harbor Link C3-R10 Section between the new Caloocan Interchange in C3 Road, Caloocan City to Radial Road 10, Navotas City, connecting the previously opened 5.65-kilometer NLEX Harbor Link Segment 10 that traverses Karuhatan, Valenzuela City, Governor Pascual Avenue in Malabon City, and 5th Avenue/C3 Road, Caloocan City.
Aside from significantly easing up the daily traffic congestion and serving as an alternate route to Dagat-Dagatan Avenue, the Malabon Exit also aims to open up development potentials in the area.
“Beyond providing safe and hassle free daily travel, this new exit intends to further unlock the tourism and business potentials of Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas and neighboring cities,” Bautista noted, adding that “NLEX is aiming to create an enabling business environment and bring in more opportunities to CAMANAVA.”
This new Malabon Exit also ignited optimism for the future of the City of Malabon. Mayor Antolin Oreta mentioned, “We are happy with the opening of the Malabon Exit which will definitely decongest traffic and improve the accessibility of our city from those coming from the North and Central Luzon areas.”
The NLEX Harbor Link is one of the high impact projects of the Duterte administration’s “Build, Build, Build” infrastructure program. (NLEX/PIA-NCR)
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