CCLEX is now 90% complete, installs RFID sites for stickers registration

 MINERVA BC NEWMAN

CEBU CITY – The iconic Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX) is now on its last stretch with just 10 percent left before project completion and it has started to install the CCLEX radio frequency identification (RFID) stickers that motorists need to use the expressway.

In a project update posted on its Facebook page, the CCLEX management has currently installed seven installation sites for the CCLEX RFID and called on motorists to schedule their RFID registrations at https://mptc.outsystemsenterprise.com/ORRAS/ and pick a date and installation site.

These sites are located at the Outlets at Pueblo Verde in Lapu-Lapu City; Cordova Centennial Avenue in Cordova; Parkmall, Landers Superstore, Robinsons Galleria Cebu, SM Seaside City Cebu (Official), and IL Corso Lifemalls in Cebu City.

According to CCLEX management that to use the expressway, motorists must have the RFID sticker installed on the vehicle by a CCLEX RFID installer.  The RFIDS are needed to access the Expressway which is expected to open this year.  CCLEX’s toll plaza is on the Cordova side and will have eight toll lanes—four lanes in each direction.

The P30-billion CCLEX uses an all-electronic toll collection system to provide safe and seamless travel. The remaining 10 percent work now covers piping and ducting and construction of safety barriers at the CSCR on and off ramp; Cebu viaduct, main bridge, Cordova viaduct and causeway. Embankment works are also ongoing at the causeway, FB project updates read.

The CCLEX is the first toll road project outside Luzon of Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (MPTC) that highlights the iconic crosses on top of the twin pylons of the cable-stayed main bridge over the Mactan Channel.

MPTC said this the third link to Mactan Island from Cordova town to mainland Cebu City via the South Road Properties (SRP) with a design speed of 80 kilometers per hour and a navigational clearance or height of 51 meters to allow large vessels to pass underneath the bridge.

 

 

MPTC chairman Manuel Pangilinan was in Cebu last year to mark the main bridge deck connection and launched the online appointment system for the installation of the CCLEX RFID stickers for vehicles on October 29, 2021.

 The central span of the cable-stayed bridge was joined on October 5, 2021 to finally link Cebu City and the Municipality of Cordova, this is the longest and tallest bridge in the Philippines, spanning 8.9 kilometers and is now becoming a tourist attraction in Cebu City.

“We are happy to bring to Cebuanos this contactless and cashless payment through RFID when using our expressway as part of our vision to modernize the country’s transport sector and as part of our commitment to nation-building,” Pangilinan said in his message last year.

MPTC president Rodrigo Franco said that the introduction of RFID in Cebu is part of the tollways group’s expansion of its cashless system, driven by the evolving changes in the industry and the expansive use of digital technologies. (Photos: CCLEX FB)