C5-South Link first section seen to open in May

METRO Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC), the road infrastructure arm of conglomerate Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC), expects to open the first phase of its P10-billion C5-South Link by May, its president Rodrigo Franco revealed during the groundbreaking ceremony at the Cavite segment of the Cavite-Laguna Expressway (Calaex) on Wednesday. MPIC previously said the first section involved building a flyover above the South Luzon Expressway and Skyway from Circumferential Road 5 in Taguig City to Merville in Parañaque City. The second would run from Merville to Sucat, and the last from Sucat to R1 Expressway. MPTC targets to complete the 7.7-kilometer expressway project by 2020. Once finished, travel time from Parañaque, Las Piñas City and Cavite province to Taguig would be cut from one-and-a-half hours to 20 to 30 minutes.