SCTEX Is For Motor Vehicles!

Comment on a reader regarding the practice of closing have the SCTEX for sporting event use:

Last Saturday morning I set off for Clark and was absolutely astonished that one side of the SCTEX was closed for a "Bicycle Race".

So we had counterflow on one side only. Not only is this dangerous, it is gross stupidity to close half of a major highway leading to a major tourist destination on a weekend for a "Bicycle Race" Not only that, it was organized by non other than the Department of Tourism!

Needless to say they still collected the full toll fee at the other end.

[The Subic Bulletin] The Subic Bulletin has complained about this issue before, in fact previously when they closed the SCTEX they almost killed motorists by routing traffic head on towards each other http://thesubicbulletin.blogspot.com/2009/05/scitex-routes-traffic-head-on.html

But we have also learned that now they are going to close it again today to run a marathon. What a joke! http://www.gmanews.tv/story/175322/subic-international-marathon-races-off-on-saturday

The ignorant operators of the SCTEX need to decide if they have built an Expressway or a sporting facility because their dangerous and greedy practices not only deprive motorists of the safe unencumbered roadway that they are paying for but risk the very lives of the motorists who are their customers.