Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC), the mother company of the Cebu-Cordova Link
Expressway Corp. (CCLEC), is now looking at making a feasibility study on a bridge project, which aims to link the provinces of Cebu and Bohol via a bridge.
This development was announced by CCLEC president Allan Alfon during a webinar hosted
by Cebu-based newspaper The Freeman titled “Building Back Better”, and was streamed online on July 25, 2022.
According to Alfon, after the success of the P33 billion Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway
(CCLEX), his company is eying to bid for the Cebu-Bohol bridge link.
The proposed bridge will connect Cordova town or Olango Island in Cebu province and
the town of Getafe.
He stressed that the feasibility study is being conducted as of the moment.
The company is also looking at other possible bridge projects that would connect Cebu
to other islands like Negros Oriental and Leyte.
It can be recalled that in 2019, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA),
through its director-general then Ernesto Pernia said that the Cebu-Bohol bridge was amongthe so-called “impossible” projects, adding that making a bridge between Cebu and Bohol is going to be “costly”, due to technology limitations.
Back then, the proposed Cebu-Bohol bridge had an estimated total cost of P56.62 billion and supposedly to be funded by an overseas development assistance (ODA) loan.
