DECLARATION OF THE NORTH LUZON EXPRESSWAY FROM BALINTAWAK TO TABANG AND THE SOUTH LUZON EXPRESSWAY FROM NICHOLS TO ALABANG AS LIMITED ACCESS FACILITIES

Pursuant to Section 2 of Republic Act No. 2000, a limited access facility is defined as “a highway or street especially designed for through traffic, and over, from, or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have no right or easement or only a limited right or easement of access, light, air or view by reason of the fact that their property abuts upon such limited access facility or for any other reason.  Such highways or streets may be parkways, from which trucks, buses, and other commercial vehicles shall be excluded or they may be free-ways open to use by all customary forms of street and highway traffic.”

Section 3 of the same Act authorizes the Department of Public Works and Communications (now Department of Public Works and Highways) “to plan, designate, establish, regulate, vacate, alter, improve, maintain, and provide limited access facilities for public use wherever it is of the opinion that traffic conditions, present or future, will justify such special facilities.

Therefore, by virtue of the authority granted above, the Department of Public Works and Highways hereby designates and declares the Balintawak to Tabang Sections of the North Luzon Expressway, and the Nichols to Alabang Sections of the South Luzon Expressways, to be LIMITED ACCESS HIGHWAYS/FACILITIES subject to such rules and regulations that may be imposed by the DPWH through the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB)

In view thereof, the National Capital Region (NCR) of this Department is hereby ordered, after consultation with the TRB and in coordination with the Philippine National Police (PNP), to close all illegal openings along the said Limited Access Highways/Facilities.  In this connection, the NCR is instructed to organize its own enforcement and security group for the purpose of assuring the continued closure of the right-of-way fences and the implementation of the rules and regulations that may be imposed by the DPWH through the TRB.

This Order shall take effect immediately.

Adopted: 5 Apr. 1993

(Sgd.) EDMUNDO V. MIR, CESO I
Acting Secretary