CEBU -- Cebu Gov. Pamela Baricuatro announced that Capitol is ready to implement the Metro Cebu Expressway (MCE) through a public-private partnership (PPP) scheme during a meeting with MCE stakeholders at the Capitol on October 13, attended by City of Naga Mayor Val Chiong, DENR Assistant Regional Director Eddie Llamedo, MGB Regional Director Al Emil Berador, EMB Regional Director Ma. Victoria Abrera, and Provincial Administrator Atty. Ace Durano.
“The province will implement that project. There are now interested parties who would want to do joint ventures with the provincial government,” Baricuatro informed the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH-7) at the meeting.
The MCE is envisioned as an alternative backbone highway connecting the City of Naga in the south to Danao City in the north, reducing travel time from three hours to just 50 minutes across approximately 56.9 kilometers. Traversing the slopes of Cebu’s mountain range, the expressway is expected to ease traffic congestion in Metro Cebu, particularly in its urban core and central business districts.
Provincial Administrator Atty. Ace Durano raised the concern of a portion of the expressway in the City of Naga collapsed during a landslide in October 2023, rendering 360 meters of the stretch impassable that impact on Minebea Mitsumi, a manufacturing plant located in the NVIP-Special Economic Zone in Barangay Cantao-an, Naga City.
“This has become a headache for the management since the buses that ferry at least 6,000 employees to and from the plant site had to pass through the collapsed portion,” Durano said the company has been struggling to ferry its 6,000 employees to and from the plant due to the damaged section.
Engr. Nonato Paylado of DPWH-7 assured stakeholders that work on the affected area will begin soon and that access will be restored within six months. “We will try our best to give you a lane that is safe,” Paylado said. (Photos: Capitol PIO/Google Images)
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