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    inunahan pa yung sa SLEX..

    http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx...bCategoryId=63

    TRB okays STAR toll increase on July 10
    By Rainier Allan Ronda (The Philippine Star) Updated June 22, 2010 12:00 AM

    MANILA, Philippines - Toll fees at the Southern Tagalog Arterial Road (STAR) tollway are set to increase on July 10.

    The Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) said it had approved the toll fee hike sought by the Star Infrastructure Development Corp. due to additional works it made on the expressway which were requested by local government units in Batangas.

    The TRB had allowed the tollway operator to impose higher fees effective June 30 but the company decided to defer implementation of the toll hike to July 10.

    With the hike, toll fee for Class 1 vehicles for the whole stretch of the STAR tollway or from Santo Tomas to Batangas City will go from P55 to P60, P109 to P120 for Class 2 vehicles, and P164 to 179 for Class 3 vehicles.

    The 42-kilometer long tollway was constructed under a build-operate-transfer contract between the government and SIDC and was envisioned to be an expressway linking Metro Manila to the port of Batangas.

    The news of the toll fee hike at the STAR tollway came after Malacañang deferred plans to increase toll rates at the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX).
    The Palace said it is up to the incoming administration to decide on the supposed toll hike, which is set to be opposed by public transport groups before the TRB.

    Deferment welcomed
    The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), meantime, welcomed Malacañang’s postponement of the SLEX toll hike.

    BIR Commissioner Joel Tan-Torres said this would give affected parties more time to prepare for the adjustment, not only in the toll rates but also for the planned implementation of the value-added tax (VAT).

    He also said that the concerned parties can just have a one-time adjustment to accommodate both the toll rate hike and the VAT rate increase.

    “We would have wanted a one time adjustment,” Tan-Torres said.
    He said this would give concerned parties such as the TRB the time to take into account all the necessary adjustments.

    Deputy presidential spokesman Gary Olivar has said that if the move to increase the toll rates by the South Luzon Toll Corp., which operates SLEX, was not part of any agreement with private investors, then deferring it would be possible.

    “This (toll increase) does not appear to be urgent, so I would not be surprised that it would be deferred to the next administration, which will scrutinize the contract,” he earlier said.

    President-elect Benigno Aquino III has vowed to review the impending toll increase when he assumes office on June 30.

    The TRB earlier gave the South Luzon Toll Corp. the greenlight to hike the toll rates covering the Alabang-Calamba stretch of SLEX starting June 30.
    Aside from the increase, the government would also be slapping the VAT. – With Iris Gonzales

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    dapat lagyan na nila ng aspalto yung kalsada nila dahil sobrang bako bako :D

    nakaka ilang tumakbo ng mabilis dahil ang ingay sa pang ilalim :P

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    Mabuti sana kung aaspaltuhin nila yung kalsada

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    http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx...bCategoryId=63


    Supreme Court asked to stop 277% hike in STAR toll rates
    (The Philippine Star) Updated June 23, 2010 12:00 AM

    MANILA, Philippines - The Supreme Court (SC) was asked yesterday to stop the 277-percent increase in toll rates at the Southern Tagalog Arterial Road (STAR) on July 7.
    In his petition, Albay Gov. Joey Salceda said he is seeking a temporary restraining order and eventually a writ of preliminary injunction to avoid any economic dislocations caused by the “abrupt, unconscionable, exorbitant and shocking” increase in toll.
    Salceda urged the SC to void the published new toll rates and order the Toll Regulatory Board to perform their legal duty to send notice and conduct hearings on the adjustment of toll.
    Salceda, Bicol Regional Development Council chairman, wants a TRO against implementation of the new toll under the Supplemental Toll Operation Agreement (STOA) between South Luzon Tollways Corp. (SLTC) and TRB.
    Salceda said he sought the relief to “prevent the respondents from taking undue advantage of their power” provided under Presidential Decree No. 1112 not allowing no public consultation.
    Salceda accused the TRB of “grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction” in including toll rates in the contract with SLTC.
    Its authority is limited to construction, operation and maintenance of toll facilities, he added.
    Salceda said the STOA entered into by the government with SLTC through the TRB for a 25-year concession on the 30-kilometer SLEX violated PD 1112 because it included provisions on determining and fixing of toll rates.
    Last December the SC voided the compromise agreement between Philippine National Construction Corp. and Radstock Securities, Ltd., he added.
    Salceda said in that decision, the SC noted the expiration of the PNCC franchise in 2007.
    In 2008, a Pasig court also ruled that the TRB usurped the legislative power of Congress in granting PNCC a transitional agreement to operate SLEX after the expiration of its franchise, he added.
    Named respondents in the petition are the Department of Transportation and Communications , TRB, Manila Toll Expressway Systems Inc., and South Luzon Tollway Corp.
    Enrile asks Congress to probe toll hike
    Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile will ask Congress to investigate the “inordinate” 250-percent increase in toll rates at the renovated South Luzon Expressway beginning on June 30.
    “I will file a resolution in the 15th Congress to investigate it,” he said.
    “We should find out what justifies such an inordinate increase. Those affected should file a collective suit to ask for a TRO until this is settled.”
    Enrile wants to know why the toll would be raised that much.
    “They must justify it [and state] what kind of investment they did to justify such an increase when inflation in the country is not that much,” he said.
    However, TRB spokesman Julius Corpus defended the toll increase.
    “It is but right for investors to recover their investments after investing P11 billion in the project.”
    Meanwhile, Malaysian-controlled South Luzon Tollways Corp. announced yesterday they will defer implementation of the 250-percent toll hike for a week.
    In a statement, SLTC chairman Dato Azmil Khalid said increased toll will be collected starting July 7.
    “As a way of showing unity with millions of Filipinos in welcoming the new president on June 30, SLTC has decided to delay carrying out the new toll fees until July 7, 2010,” read the statement.
    The SLTC said that the TRB had approved the toll hike after they had met all conditions imposed by the TRB board of directors in accordance with the STOA. – Edu Pu­nay, Christina Mendez, Rainier Allan Ronda

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