The Metro Cebu Expressway is a

expressway Expressway may refer to: * Controlled-access highway, the highest-grade type of highway with access ramps, lane markings, etc., for high-speed traffic. * Limited-access road, a lower grade of highway or arterial road. *Expressway, the fictional s ...

Cebu Cebu (; ceb, Sugbo), officially the Province of Cebu ( ceb, Lalawigan sa Sugbo; tl, Lalawigan ng Cebu; hil, Kapuroan sang Sugbo), is a province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region, and consists of a main island and 167 ...

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. The expressway, once completed, will connect the

Cebu North Road The Cebu North Road, also known as the Cebu North Hagnaya Wharf Road is a , the major thoroughfare that connects the city of Cebu City, Cebu to the Port of Hagnaya in the municipality of San Remigio, Cebu, San Remigio in Cebu, Philippines. The roa ...

( N8) in Danao to the Naga–Uling Road ( N81) in

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. and will serve as an alternative north–south backbone highway for Cebu. As of 2020, only a portion of the expressway in Barangays Pangdan and Cantao-an in Naga, Cebu, which is part of the project's third segment, has been constructed so far. Its first and second segments are currently on hold until the approval of unsolicited proposals coming from private firms and road

right-of-way Right of way is the legal right, established by grant from a landowner or long usage (i.e. by prescription), to pass along a specific route through property belonging to another. A similar ''right of access'' also exists on land held by a gov ...

acquisitions.

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Proposed roads in the Philippines {{Philippines-road-stub Roads in Cebu