Question & AnswerQ&A (DPWH DEPARTMENT ORDER NO. 74)
A limited access facility is defined as a highway or street especially designed for through traffic, from, or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have no right or easement or only a limited right or easement of access, light, air, or view by reason of the fact that their property abuts upon such facility or for any other reason. Such highways or streets may be parkways or free-ways open to customary street and highway traffic.
The Balintawak to Tabang sections of the North Luzon Expressway and the Nichols to Alabang sections of the South Luzon Expressway were declared as limited access highways.
The Department acts under the authority granted by Section 3 of Republic Act No. 2000, which authorizes it to plan, designate, establish, regulate, vacate, alter, improve, maintain, and provide limited access facilities for public use whenever traffic conditions justify such facilities.
The NCR is ordered to close all illegal openings along the limited access highways/facilities after coordination with the TRB and Philippine National Police (PNP).
The NCR DPWH is instructed to organize its own enforcement and security group to ensure the continued closure of right-of-way fences and the implementation of rules and regulations imposed by the DPWH through the Toll Regulatory Board.
The TRB imposes rules and regulations for the designated limited access highways and coordinates with the DPWH in regulating and maintaining these facilities.
Yes, owners or occupants of abutting land have no right or only limited rights or easements of access, light, air, or view to the limited access facility because their properties abut on such facilities.
No, parkways designated as limited access facilities exclude trucks, buses, and other commercial vehicles.
The order took effect immediately upon its adoption on April 5, 1993.
The NCR must coordinate with the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) to enforce the regulations and ensure security on limited access highways.