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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

SCTEx Clark-Tarlac stretch opens on Friday, July 25

The Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway will be fully operational beginning Friday when the Clark-Tarlac portion of the 94-kilometer opens to the public. I got a sneak preview of the closed portion of the SCTEx today since we were given special permission to drive from Subic to the Luisita Exit in Tarlac.

With the SCTEx complete, travel time from Balintawak to Subic is now just about an hour and forty minutes. While travel from Balintawak to Luisita will be just one hour and twenty minutes. When it opens on Friday, motorists can drive from Subic to La Paz, Tarlac in just a little over an hour. Now that's progress!

Notes: I'll post more photos of my SCTEx Tarlac preview as soon as I get back to Manila. I was quite happy to see that they corrected the "MacArthur Highway" signs which I complained about in a previous post. I found out in San Francisco how the observation made its way to BCDA top brass and got the signs corrected.

Anyway, so much has been happening the past few months, I could barely update everyone about my travels. I'll try to get back in the groove within the next few days so expect a lot of updates from my recent trip to the US and the Mayoyao, Ifugao harvest experience last weekend.

3 comments:

  1. delicado pala sa SCTEx
    ang MacDonald's!!!!

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  2. Haha! Filipinos pronounce "Mc" and "Mac" the same kasi. But there is a difference in the US since they don't pronounce "Mc" without an "a" because there isn't any in the first place. Hehe!

    Sad to say, many official maps in government spell "MacArthur" as "McArthur"

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  3. i love this expressway!!! ang bilis papunta ng subic!!! wheeeee! :)

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