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Apart from ‘Shocking’ 300% Toll-Fee Hike, Philippines Has to Account for Dramatic Jump in SLEX Project Cost

Apart from ‘Shocking’ 300% Toll-Fee Hike, Philippines Has to Account for Dramatic Jump in SLEX Project Cost

By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
From an initial P4 billion in 2006, the cost of expanding and improving the South Luzon Expressway jumped dramatically to P12.5 billion by last year. This is being used to justify the increase in toll fees – an imposition that many view as not only patently anti-poor but the result as well of “evident corruption.”

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Critics Condemn the TRB’s ‘Lies, Treachery and Betrayal’ in Hastily Approving 300% Toll-Fee Hikes

Critics Condemn the TRB’s ‘Lies, Treachery and Betrayal’ in Hastily Approving 300% Toll-Fee Hikes

By MARYA SALAMAT
"The TRB cannot even tell us how the toll rates were computed. What was the basis for the computation of the toll rates? These questions must be answered first before they raise the toll fees,” said Northern Samar governor Paul Daza, co-convenor of the TUTOL-SLEX.

Drivers to Protest Double Whammy of Impending Hike, VAT on Toll Fees

Drivers to Protest Double Whammy of Impending Hike, VAT on Toll Fees

By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Pointing to the public-private partnership in the development of the South Luzon Expressway as the culprit in the planned increase in toll fees, drivers' group Piston warned that the planned hike plus the imposition of VAT on toll fees would trigger price increases as transport costs would likewise jack up.

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