CCLEX’s electronic toll payment starts October 1

CEBU, Philippines — Starting October 1, 2022, the Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX) will go full electronic for its toll payments in order to enhance motorists’ travel experience.

CCLEX announced that its remaining cash lanes will already be converted into exclusive RFID lanes.

CCLEX has a total of 10 toll lanes, four of which currently accept cash to cater to motorists who have yet to get RFID tags for their vehicles.

“Our transition to full contactless toll payment is aimed at providing a more efficient expressway experience to our road users and afford them ease of travel,” said Cebu Cordova Link Expressway Corporation (CCLEC) President and General Manager Allan Alfon in a statement posted on Facebook.

It was on July 1, 2022 when CCLEC started partially converting some of the expressway’s toll booths to RFID-enabled lanes.

With three weeks left before the roll out of CCLEX’s full electronic toll collection system, CCLEC encourages motorists who already have RFID to reload their accounts online through the MPT DriveHub, an all-in-one travel companion app.

For motorists still using cash lanes, CCLEC encourages them to switch now to RFID for faster and seamless drive.

The MPT DriveHub app is available for free in Google Play Store and App Store.

Aside from MPT DriveHub app, motorists can also reload their CCLEX RFID at the CCLEX Customer Service Centers at the Toll Plaza. It’s open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday to Saturday, for the whole month of September 2022.

For those who have no RFID yet, they can schedule their installation by going to cclex.com.ph and clicking on Register.

Walk-ins are also now accepted at the Customer Service Centers conveniently located on both sides near the CCLEX Toll Plaza, and offsite installation stations at Anjo World and Landers Superstore.

CCLEX, now considered the tallest and highest bridgeway structure in the country, is a project of CCLEC, in partnership with the local government units of Cebu City and Municipality of Cordova.

CCLEX, an engineering feat and Cebu’s newest iconic landmark, is seen to not only ease traffic congestion in the metro but also spark socio-economic development in the province, according to a study by the University of San Carlos.

CCLEX was inaugurated by former President Rodrigo Duterte on April 27, 2022 and opened to the motoring public on April 30, 2022.

It was also Duterte who led the groundbreaking ceremony for the project in Cordova, Cebu last March 2, 2017.

The P33-billion, 8.9-kilometer bridge connects Cordova town in Mactan Island to the South Road Properties in Cebu City. — JMD (FREEMAN)