Way to Subic. How bad is the traffic in Lubao?

**vinj** · December 28th, 2012 09:49 AM

I usually take the old road when i go to Bataan and Zambales coming from Pampanga. My last trip was early December (on a Sunday) and the traffic in the bridge construction areas were quite bearable (around 3 bridges AFAIK). It just slows down because cars navigate the unpaved construction areas carefully.

Taking the old highway cuts around 30kms one way and saves on the SCTEX toll fees and my fuel consumption isn't much different since i'm usually running at cruising speed on the old highway as well. There's also a bypass going around Lubao should it be traffic but i never have taken it since going through Lubao nowadays isn't as bad as it was in the pre-SCTEX days.

If you just want a leisurely drive with no worries of road obstacles and good roads all the way as Niky mentioned, then SCTEX is still the way to take. In cases like me where I just want to get to my destination and since I'm familiar with the route, i just take the old road.

**IMm29** · December 28th, 2012 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by yebo

the only time i will stop using sctex is when they will allow tricycles and jeepneys in. just the sight of tricycles and super slow jeepneys on a highway makes my blood boil. puro kup*l pa mga tricycle drivers dyan, lagi nasa gitna para hirap ka mag-overtake. if only i had a ray gun just like what Marvin the Martian has, ubos na sila sana ngayon.

sctex. iwas highblood.

Or the gun of the Red Skull in Captain America. Hehehe!

**IMm29** · December 28th, 2012 11:50 AM

I was at Subic last April, and the last time prior to that was a long while back in the early '00s, pre-SCTEX. D*mn those tricycles!

Plus I'm a city rat, so any free flowing, open road will definitely get my attention. Didn't maximize SCTEX speedwise, coz I was with the family, and am not familiar with where the speed guns lie. About 140kph was the fastest burst I had on some stretches, hiding behind buses and other AUVs, SUVs and MPVs.

**Ponkan** · December 28th, 2012 01:03 PM

isa pang route is the megadike-porac-floridablanca-dinalupihan road labas mo na nun un start ng zigzag then tuloy ka na tipo-subic expressway, worth the try din kung di ka naman in a hurry, konti lang sasakyan dun dumadaan lalo kapag morning kaya un ang best time dumaan dun maganda din un scenery

**yebo** · December 28th, 2012 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by Ponkan

isa pang route is the megadike-porac-floridablanca-dinalupihan road labas mo na nun un start ng zigzag then tuloy ka na tipo-subic expressway, worth the try din kung di ka naman in a hurry, konti lang sasakyan dun dumadaan lalo kapag morning kaya un ang best time dumaan dun maganda din un scenery

yan yung may steel bridge na may liko sa gitna? o napalitan na yun? dami aksidente dun pag umuulan kasi checkered plate yung surface ng bridge madulas.

**Noel Salisipan** · December 28th, 2012 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by yebo

the only time i will stop using sctex is when they will allow tricycles and jeepneys in. just the sight of tricycles and super slow jeepneys on a highway makes my blood boil. puro kup*l pa mga tricycle drivers dyan, lagi nasa gitna para hirap ka mag-overtake. if only i had a ray gun just like what Marvin the Martian has, ubos na sila sana ngayon.

sctex. iwas highblood.

Pero pag labas mo sa toll at magbabayad na tiyak kung hindi ka mapailing ng konte, e high blodin ka ng konte.hehehe
(mga 100 to 150 na toll dyan, tpos galing ka pa sa nlex na 200+)

**mark_t** · December 29th, 2012 01:50 AM

Originally Posted by Noel Salisipan

Pero pag labas mo sa toll at magbabayad na tiyak kung hindi ka mapailing ng konte, e high blodin ka ng konte.hehehe
(mga 100 to 150 na toll dyan, tpos galing ka pa sa nlex na 200+)

408php one way

816php total balikan.

Kanila na sctex, ika kain ko na lang sa subic ang matipid ko sa toll. May fuel savings pa. Pareho lang naman ang travel time.

But that is just me.

**skyflakes** · December 31st, 2012 07:05 PM

sctex

**holdencaulfield** · January 23rd, 2013 09:26 AM

kakatakot sa sctex pag gabi. kakaawa pa yung mga nadadaanan kong nasiraan.
oh noooo!

**vinj** · February 6th, 2013 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by holdencaulfield

kakatakot sa sctex pag gabi. kakaawa pa yung mga nadadaanan kong nasiraan.
oh noooo!

Di mo naman sila hino-holdap?

But yeah, SCTEX can really be dark at night tapos pag malakas pa ulan or hangin sa papuntang Subic, nadadala talaga yung sasakyan. Pag late gabi na, i tend to take Mc Arthur Highway (if going North) from NLEX already, or the Olongapo Gapan Road if i'm heading to Subic or Zambales. I skip SCTEX na.