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Overview
Infrastructure
development for our country remains of critical importance to regain
and sustain high economic growth, improve the social living
standards of the people and remove the bottlenecks to international
commerce and investment. The new administration recognizes the
Public-Private Partnership (PPP) as an approach to invest resources
for adequate road infrastructure. The Government has less resources
to invest on Expressways. DPWH will undertake the reforms needed to
create a more conducive environment for private business and help
generate many more bankable projects.
PPP describes a
government service or private business venture which is funded,
constructed and operated through a partnership between the
government and the private sector. To make PPP projects more
attractive to the private investors, the government contributions
are in kind. These include provision of capital subsidy; provision
of revenue subsidies, including tax breaks; provision of guaranteed
annual revenues for a fixed period or transfer of existing assets.
The private party provides a public service or project and assumes
substantial financial, technical and operational risks in the
project.
The Project
Management Office – Build-Operate-Transfer (PMO-BOT) is tasked to
handle PPP projects in the Department. The Office has come up with
a short and long list of priority PPP projects proposed for
implementation. These priority projects are the outputs of the
on-going JICA-assisted Preparatory Survey for Public-Private
Partnership Infrastructure Development Project in the
Philippines.
EXISTING SITUATION IN METRO MANILA AND NEARBY AREAS
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Arterial road network which is composed of 6 circumferential
and 10 radial roads was proposed in the late 1960s. All
radial roads are already completed; however, development of
circumferential roads are still incomplete; |
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Three
expressways, namely NLEX, SLEX with Skyway over it and the
Manila-Cavite Toll Expressway, are presently functioning
individually and expressways are not formed as a network
yet; |
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Heavy
traffic is the norm in Metro Manila; and |
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Travel
speed in most major roads in Metro Manila is quite low at
less than 20 km/hr. It is even less than 10 km/hr in some
major roads including Aguinaldo Highway in Cavite
Province. |
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