C5 Expressway (NLEX-SLEX Link)

**niky** · July 17th, 2012 06:15 PM

170 km/h on the straights?

We were taking the Market Market (before there was a Market Market) underpass at 140+ km/h back in those days. No tire squeal. No understeer. No drama. Had a well set-up 1.3 liter Sentra FE with moderate lowering, gas shocks, 15" mags, Grid IIs and a big ass wing.

Then, when we got the Lynx... 160+, bone stock, same turn. No tire squeal, even less suspension compression. That was the point at which I gave up driving fast on the streets. Realized that cars were getting too fast for safe "hooning".

**vinj** · July 18th, 2012 09:33 AM

Originally Posted by niky

We were taking the Market Market (before there was a Market Market) underpass at 140+ km/h back in those days. No tire squeal. No understeer. No drama. Had a well set-up 1.3 liter Sentra FE with moderate lowering, gas shocks, 15" mags, Grid IIs and a big ass wing.

I'm sorry to break the news to you... but it's gotta be the wing. :D

Those turns have pretty good banking actually.

Yes, cars continue to get faster and faster. Before, going over 120 and hitting 140-160 was already something big for a lot of people. Now you'd have everyone and their mothers posting pictures of their AUVs and trucks doing 200kph.

**Verbl Kint** · July 18th, 2012 09:52 AM

There already is an NLEX to SLEX link:

SMART to Mindanao to Congressional to Luzon to Balara to Katipunan to Libis to C5 to NLEX

Wala nga lang banking tsaka jumps; marami ring tricycle.

**vinj** · July 18th, 2012 10:52 AM

Originally Posted by Verbl Kint

There already is an NLEX to SLEX link:

SMART to Mindanao to Congressional to Luzon to Balara to Katipunan to Libis to C5 to NLEX

Wala nga lang banking tsaka jumps; marami ring tricycle.

+ bumper to bumper traffic in Katipunan Ateneo, C5-Libis/Eastwood and Bagong Ilog Flyover. Complete also with kamikaze motorcycles and jeepney stops.

**niky** · July 18th, 2012 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by vinj

+ bumper to bumper traffic in Katipunan Ateneo, C5-Libis/Eastwood and Bagong Ilog Flyover. Complete also with kamikaze motorcycles and jeepney stops.

That's why I always take the Nagtahan Bonifacio... but I usually drive early in the morning, no traffic on Espana... I'd rather face the backroads around there than be stuck in that hellhole of a traffic jam between Ateneo and Balara...

**foifoi05** · July 24th, 2012 04:54 AM

Originally Posted by niky

That's why I always take the Nagtahan Bonifacio... but I usually drive early in the morning, no traffic on Espana... I'd rather face the backroads around there than be stuck in that hellhole of a traffic jam between Ateneo and Balara...

at traffic sa San Lorenzo sa congressional at occasional na traffic sa may cherry supermarket. grabe minsan mas ok pa dumaan sa tandang sora

**timrev** · August 4th, 2012 10:47 AM

NLEXC-SLEX skyway Project is proposed by Metro Pacific Group of Manny Pangilinan, chairman and CEO of TV5, and the second project, SLEX through San Juan and Araneta Avenue, and ending in Balintawak, Quezon City, is proposed by San Miguel Group of Ramon Ang.

**timrev** · August 16th, 2012 11:21 AM

Earlier this year, HGC published for negotiated sale the air rights of way...
ganu kaya kataas?

**vinj** · October 23rd, 2012 10:03 AM

For those taking C5 through Katipunan to Commonwealth/Mindanao Ave., this has been one big bane. Those #$%##!$!#^T squatters that prevent the linking of the last few hundred meters to the flyover crossing Commonwealth Ave. Seems like the good of thousands of motorists is much, much less as compared to those few squatters who refuse to vanish from the face of the earth.

From: Enough is enough - Manila Standard Today

Enough is enough
By Manila Standard Today | Posted on Oct. 17, 2012 at 12:01am | 1,054 views

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For months now, a brand new flyover traversing Commonwealth Avenue, a national road in Quezon City, has remained half-closed. There is nothing wrong with the structure—the road is well paved and ready for use. In fact, the government “opened” the flyover in April, more than seven months ago.

On one side of the flyover, vehicles from Tandang Sora Avenue can cross Commonwealth Avenue with ease to reach Luzon Avenue. Motorists coming from Luzon Avenue, however, may not use the same finished flyover because that side of the road has been closed to vehicular traffic, and has become instead a multi-million-peso promenade for the squatter residents along Luzon Avenue who want to take a leisurely stroll along government property.

The problem, the Department of Public Works and Highways tells us, is that some 30 to 80 squatter families on the other side of the flyover in Old Balara refuse to leave their homes built on government land and are blocking construction of a road that will connect the flyover to Katipunan Avenue and the C-5 highway.

In a recent interview, the Highways official in charge of the project refused to assume responsibility for the delay but did not say who should be held accountable. He says the government’s policy has been to offer the squatters in the area money to move—an option that some have accepted but others have refused.

The upshot of this refusal to move and the government’s complete failure to enforce the law is the huge traffic jams along Tandang Sora Avenue, a nightmare that bedevils taxpaying motorists every blessed day. In the meantime, the squatters who continue to defy the government and thwart a major national infrastructure project are being rewarded with a bonus: they get to set up market stalls on the ruins of their neighbors’ demolished homes and paved portions of a public road that may never be used.

There are ill effects on the other side of the flyover as well. With very little traffic along their street and no police or traffic enforcers to tell them otherwise, the squatters of Luzon Avenue have encroached on the road, turning one lane of it into their own private parking or extensions of their roadside businesses.

Every day, thousands of motorists put themselves and their vehicles at risk while navigating the narrow, poorly paved stretch of Tandang Sora Avenue. Tempers flare, accidents occur, untold man-hours are lost all because the government is unable to eject the stubborn, thick-faced illegal settlers who stand between us and progress.

This is an administration that has ousted a Supreme Court justice in a mere two to three months and hounded an Ombudsman from her office. It has also shamed a senator into giving up his chairmanship of the ways and means committee. Have the bullies in the Palace finally met their match in the hoodlums of Old Balara?