HISTORY
The opening of the North and South Luzon Tollways propelled the start of PNCC’s ascent as this credits the company of building and managing the two most important thoroughfares of Metro Manila and the vital links to neighboring provinces. PNCC completed the 27-kilometer, four-lane divided highway from Balintawak in Quezon City to Tabang, Bulacan, known as the Manila North Expressway (MNEX), in the 1960’s. This first big success in public works construction gave way to PNCC’s rise in the road building industry.
The construction of Manila South Expressway
(MSEX) in 1967 was the second major roadway
project completed by PNCC. It opened on December 16, 1969 and provided a vital artery to southern Luzon stretching 15 kilometers from Makati to Alabang.
On August 4, 1968, the MNEX opened as a tollway facility with PNCC managing its operations and maintenance, later followed by the MSEX. In 1977, the government issued Presidential Decree 1113 granting PNCC a franchise to manage, operate, maintain and extend the MNEX and MSEX, now called the North and South Luzon Tollways.
The franchise started on May 1, 1977 and will end on April 30, 2007. In 1976, the NLT was extended with an additional 50.9 kilometers of concrete road as part of a highways program of the International Bank for Reconstruction Development.
The project featured the five-kilometer
Candaba Viaduct, a construction innovation utilizing precast beam systems. The NLT now stretches up to 84 kilometers from Balintawak, Quezon City to Sta.
Ines, Pampanga. The SLT, on the other hand, now extends to another 29 kilometers up to Calamba, Laguna. It includes a 1.2-kilometer long viaduct, which crosses over Alabang, Muntinlupa City.