Bridge-Tunnel Proposed To Be Constructed Across Manila Bay Linking Cavite, Bataan
A bridge-tunnel across Manila Bay, starting from Naic town
in Cavite province and ending in Mariveles town in Bataan province, is being
pushed as a solution to the traffic crisis in Metro Manila.
Felicito Payumo, Former Chair of the Subic Bay Metropolitan
Authority (SBMA), named his idea the Trans Manila Bay Crossing, which he first
pitched in 1987 on his first term as Bataan Representative.
He revived the idea after observing that there was no more
real estate left to host new roads or expand the mass transit system.
“The Trans Manila Bay Crossing poses no right of way issue.
It will not only push growth outside of Metro Manila but will also connect
three regions with close to 40 percent of the population and with gross
domestic product (GDP) exceeding 50 percent of our total GDP,” said Payumo.
The plan for a combined bridge and tunnel also completes
“the Big Loop,” or what is now a network of existing and integrated roads south
and north of Metro Manila, he said.
These are the Roman Highway in Bataan, the
Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway, the North Luzon Expressway, the
Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway, the Skyway Connector Road of the north
and south expressways, the Skyway, the South Luzon Expressway, the
Manila-Cavite Expressway and the Southern Tagalog Arterial Road.
The planned Cavite-Laguna-Expressway leads to Quezon
province and the Bicol region.
“If there are 18 million trips each day by 13 million
inhabitants in Metro Manila, add to this the pass-through trips from Southern
Luzon to Central and northern Luzon and vice versa, then we know why traffic
crawls on EDSA (Epifanio delos Santos Avenue). There is only one arterial road
that connects Southern Luzon to Central Luzon through Metro Manila, and that is
EDSA. This pass-through traffic should not go through Metro Manila if the
Cavite-Corregidor-Bataan connection is constructed,” stated Payumo.
According to him, the Trans Manila Bay Crossing would make
the Clark International Airport at the Clark Freeport only an hour’s drive away
from Cavite.
Moreover, Payumo said his idea was similar to Japan’s Tokyo
Aquiline.
“Motorists from Yokohama need not go around Metro Tokyo to
reach Chiba Prefecture. They just cross Tokyo Bay through the bridge-tunnel.
Similarly, motorists from Bataan and the rest of Central Luzon need not go
around Metro Manila to go to Cavite and the rest of Southern Luzon. They can cross
the Bataan-Corregidor-Cavite Trans Manila Bay Bridge-Tunnel,” said Payumo.
He said it was easier to build an access route across Manila
Bay because roads and bridges can be constructed on Corregidor Island and
smaller islands.
“The tunnel would only be necessary in the southern channel
to Cavite,” added Payumo.
Source: INQUIRER
Bridge-Tunnel Proposed To Be Constructed Across Manila Bay Linking Cavite, Bataan
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