28/04/2024
CAVITEX EXTENSION
The ManilaโCavite Toll Expressway Project (MCTEP) is a major project that is divided into five segments. The entirety of Segment 1 combined with a big portion of Segment 4 constitute the operational ManilaโCavite Expressway (CAVITEX). The remaining small portion of Segment 4 is the underconstruction CAVITEXโCALAX Link Expressway Project (CCLink). Meanwhile, the entirety of Segment 5 is the proposed yet unapproved CAVITEX Extension Project, which is divided into three subsegments.
Segment 5.1 starts at the CAVITEX Kawit Exit in Brgy. Binakayan-Aplaya and Brgy. Binakayan-Kanluran, Municipality of Kawit. The existing exit will be upgraded into a Three Leg Directional Interchange to manage traffic from CAVITEX to Segment 5.1, to Antero Soriano Highway (formerly Centennial Road), and to CCLink. The new CAVITEX Kawit Interchange will cover an area of 5 hectares and a road length of 1.8 km. From there, Segment 5.1 will traverse westward along the wet and marsh land areas of barangays Marulas, Kaingen, Poblacion, Wakas II, and Sta. Isabel, of the Municipality of Noveleta. Segment 5.1 terminates where Segment 5.2 begins, as it intersects the ManilaโCavite Road at Brgy. San Raphael IV. The total length of Segment 5.1 is 4.38 km, and will feature one toll gate before the Noveleta Interchange.
Segment 5.2 begins where Segment 5.1 terminates. A proposed Diamond Interchange (Noveleta Interchange) will be located at barangays San Rafael III and San Rafael IV along the ManilaโCavite Road, and has an approximate area of 13 hectares and a total length of 2.2 km. Segment 5.2 will then veer west south-west towards the Manila Bay shore line of Noveleta and then to the Municipality of Rosario, and terminates at Brgy. Amaya I, Municipality of Tanza, wherein a toll gate will rise on the shore before exiting to Antero Soriano Highway. The total length of Segment 5.2 is 7.58 km.
Two spur roads will be branching off from Segment 5.2: the Cavite Export Processing Zone (CEPZ) Spur Road, and the Rosario Exit Ramp. The 2.66 km CEPZ Spur Road is proposed to traverse beside the planned Cavite Industrial Area Flood Management Project (CIAFMP) in Noveleta, and will connect Segment 5.2 and Antero Soriano Highway, to accommodate vehicles from and to CEPZ โ a 275-hectare PEZA-registered special economic zone within Rosario and the City of General Trias. A toll gate will be established before the CEPZ Spur Road exits at Antero Soriano Highway, near CEPZ Gate 5.
Meanwhile, the 1.80 km Rosario Exit Ramp will connect Segment 5.2 at the coast of Brgy. Wawa I, Rosario, and will traverse beside the Caรฑas River at Brgy. Wawa III, wherein another toll gate will be constructed, before it veers east to terminate at PNOC Drive, which is the main road of Costa Verde โ a Sta. Lucia Land Inc. residential project, located just beside SM City Rosario. PNOC Drive will link the Rosario Exit Ramp to General Trias Drive.
For Segment 5.3, a connecting road from the portion of Segment 5.1 at Brgy. Sta. Isabel, Kawit, will veer northwards along the Ylang-Ylang River, and traverse the wet and marsh lands of Manila Bay at Noveleta. It will then cross the Manila-Cavite Road in the District of Dalahican, Cavite City, and then bend towards the western coastline of the city, wherein a toll gate will be built, before Segment 5.3 reaches the District of Sangley Point and the local Sangley Point Airport. The total length of Segment 5.3 is 5.39 km. This proposed alignment of Segment 5.3 is parallel with the underconstruction Sangley Airport Access Road by DPWH.
As a whole, the CAVITEX Extension Project is Segment 5 of MCTEP. The project is divided into three subsegments, and will span approximately 22 km, traversing Cavite City and the municipalities of Noveleta, Rosario, and Tanza in the Province of Cavite. Five toll gates will be constructed in each exit points of the expressway. Toll gates will be located in before the exits of Noveleta, Sangley Point, CEPZ Gate 5, SM City Rosario, and Tanza.
Take note, that as a proposed project, CAVITEX Extension has alternative alignments for each of its subsegments. What was discussed above and the photos shown below are the DPWH-recommended alignments.
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