Story of the making of an icon

Bridge of Tomorrow

A spectacular piece of infrastructure deserves a documentary. The CebuCordova Link Expressway (“CCLEX”), is a landmark bridge worthy of celebration.

Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (“MPTC”) has collaborated with National Geographic for the project, “Bridge of Tomorrow”, a documentary featuring the creation of CCLEX, an 8.5-kilometer toll bridge that will connect mainland Cebu from Cebu City to Cordova town in Mactan Island. Construction of the Pesos 30 billion project started in July 2018 and it is scheduled to be completed by August 2021.

The Nat Geo project will have four 2-minute video teasers or vignettes that will be aired every six months and will build up into the full 45-minute documentary in time for the opening of CCLEX in 2021.

INGENIOUS ENGINEERING

“Vignette #1: Making of an Icon” began airing on 22 July 2019 and features the creation of an iconic marvel: what lies behind its design, its vision and the engineering ingenuity that makes it a landmark set to transform the Visayas Region.

Through this documentary, MPTC shares the pride and reinforces the vision of the Chairman, Manuel V Pangilinan that “through this largest single investment anyone has ever made in the region, we become a catalyst for the economic development of Cebu and in improving the lives of our people.”

Project developer Cebu Cordova Link Expressway Corporation, a subsidiary company of MPTC, envisions CCLEX as not only decongesting traffic in the two existing bridges but also increasing economic activity in Cebu and throughout the Visayas Region. <<

• CCLEX is MPTC’s first expressway project outside Luzon and first Public-Private Partnership project with the local government units of Cebu City and Cordova.

• The artistically designed CCLEX, will have two lanes in each direction and will feature the main navigation span twin pylon cable-stayed bridge, viaduct approach bridges in Cebu City and Cordova sides, Cebu South Coastal Road on and off ramps, causeway and toll plaza.

• The bridge has a design speed of 80 kilometers per hour, and 51-meter height or navigational clearance to allow large vessels to pass underneath.

• It can withstand up to magnitude 10 earthquake and is vesselcollision proof.

• Service facilities such as gasoline stations, retail outlets, convenience stores, restaurants, along with security, medical and maintenance centers will be provided.