News: After TPLEx closes the Urdaneta section on Jan 20 2015, it will do finishing touches to reopen by mid Feb, but this time with toll charges. I recommend Pinoy joyrides to friends here and abroad who haven't done road journeys around here in a long time. Your videos also track traffic at rush hour which is admirable. I will also promote your site on my Autoindustriya column INSIDE MAN and my Wednesday motoring column NOT SO FAST in Business World. For sure, there will be imitators in the future but you are a pioneer and your site will encourage others to do such a public service. And maybe spot the random speed traps.... Thank you!

@dmitrivalencia

9 жыл бұрын

Sir thank you for the kind words, I am a reader of Autoindustriya too and been buying C-magazine and your competitor Topgear hahahaha :-) But I would like to also apologize for the driving habits in the videos. I have to admit "we" are traffic violators too :) and maybe we are also a subject of criticism for our aggressive driving and lastly i am an advocate of increasing the speed limit to a reasonable level at least a 120kph would be better than a 100kph hehehe! More power sir! Merry Christmas!

Thanks for this footage, I look forward to seeing it live on my next trip to Bauang!

I remember that we're going at that road in the beginning. TPLEX until Tomana Exit. Then left until we reach Lingayen

@dmitrivalencia

8 жыл бұрын

+Jappy Urbano you went to rosales towards dagupan side going to lingayen i guess :-)

love the signs, they seem to be a good hybrid between EU and Swiss Federal Highway standards.

@ldbpogi7384

9 жыл бұрын

Hernando F. HERMOSO It is actually a hybrid of American and Chinese Highway Standards. But more on Chinese Expressway Standards. :) Thank you sir for loving my work! :) That work in the video is still on experimental stage.

Hope you can do another Joyride; TPLEx from Rosales to Urdaneta : opens temporarily Saturday Dec 20 2014 up to Jan 20 2015. Toll free. After Jan 20, TPLEx will close this so-called section 2 to put finishing touches. Will reopen before Holy Week with toll charges already.

@dmitrivalencia

9 жыл бұрын

Hernando F. HERMOSO I hope I can go to the north before the year ends. thank you sir!

UPDATE: dmitiri if your planning a TPLEx joy ride, take note Urdaneta access closes on Jan 5 2015. It reopens Jan 14 one day before the Pope arrives and closes again Jan 20 one day after the Pope leaves. Then mid Feb, it reopens for good.

@alexandreamperesarmiento7337

7 жыл бұрын

So Hernando. Was Carmen Exit Closed Too? Wasn't it?

Hope you can do a joyride from Portland to Vancouver that Pacific route has the most magnificient view in the whole of NA. Nothing beats the Philippine views plus have you tried the Iloilo-Antique-Aklan road.

@dmitrivalencia

7 жыл бұрын

i did not reach Aklan area, only until San Joaquin in Panay Island

one more comment about the signs of ldbpogi: the fonts are great, like what the German authorities use on the Autobahn

@ldbpogi7384

9 жыл бұрын

Hernando F. HERMOSO I used the Blue Highway font. Still on experimental stage sir, will improve the signages next time :)

I used to be with C Magazine from 2002 to 2008. As for the 120 speed limit, Jun Abella of Baguio has a change.org petition asking for raising the speed limit to 120 on SCTEx TPLEx and also for LTO to assign pilot agencies at the expressways so re claiming licenses confiscated need not be in LTO HQ in QC. They used to do that at Skyway during the ERAP era at the PNCC office in Silangan exit SLEx. Hope change.org contacts you.

@christopherorourke6362

9 жыл бұрын

Hernando I agree with ang petition sa have sped limit raid sa 120 KPH sa TPLEX, SCTEX, NLEX. 120 KPH sa much more realistic than ang current 100 KPH which sa too slow for ang superhighways. Superhighway were built for fast driving. Ang Worst drivers are from Mexico, they drive slow nasa Estados Unidos on purpose, Kailan back nasa Mexico, they drive wreckless, driving like they are nasa an auto race.

@gabrielmahutasoit8953

4 жыл бұрын

Hernando F. HERMOSO you what? You just can't raise up the speed limit to your own opinion... Well, I know.it's quite slow, but tbh, 100kph is an efficient yet safe speed to cruise on the highway... Why? You can run your engine at 4000-4500 rpm of 5th transmission, which is an optimum power output of the engine. 120 is quite excessive in my opinion, hehe... To reach it you must do a 5000-5500 rpm engine running on 5th transmission, quite fuel-hunger , raising up your petrol cost, yet not so safe. Besides, in case of emergencies (such as earthquakes), you need longer time to stop your car when cruising @120 than @100

@gabrielmahutasoit8953

4 жыл бұрын

Christopher O'Rourke for NLEX, especially in the area of Metro Manila, it's not good... To reach that, an interchange must be built for min. 500 m from the intersection of the other served highway, and min. 3,5 km from the last interchange and the next interchange. Prior to that, from Bocaue to Balintawak, it's not feasible to raise that speed And for SLEX, I suggest reducing the speed limit to 90 kph due to the closed-spacily interchanges, mainly parclos. They have low capacity low traffic

Hi, Is it possible to travel around the Phils. by car?

@dmitrivalencia

9 жыл бұрын

pepermayde yes, via Roro but that would take you atleast two to three days worth of travel

@pepermayde

9 жыл бұрын

dmitrivalencia Thank you so much for the response. Your videos gives me an inspiration to go for a driving holiday next time i visit Philippines. ....BTW, where is Roro?

@dmitrivalencia

9 жыл бұрын

pepermayde sorry did not elaborate the RoRo. Roro means Roll On Roll Off - inter-island system of transportation that involves the driving of a motorized land vehicle in and out of an inter-island ferry or cargo ship (Wikipedia). Since Phlippines has many islands, Roro is used to connect vehicles from Luzon To Visayasto Mindanao.

@pepermayde

9 жыл бұрын

dmitrivalencia Sorry....seems like i really need that driving holiday.

@dmitrivalencia

9 жыл бұрын

pepermayde I cannot assure you about security and safety on the southern regions like Mindanao though...