Manila to Baguio: Taking the SCTEX Hacienda Luisita Exit

When I went down to Manila last Christmas via the Victory Liner De Luxe Bus, the non-stop service that get passengers to Cubao in 5 hours during the day and in 4 hours during the midnight runs, I was surprised to see that we did not access the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEX) via the Tarlac City exit, but instead we passed through Tarlac City and turned left upon reaching Hacienda Luisita. We then drove through a much wider ‘farm-to-market’ road that seemed shorter than the 9kms of the narrow barangay road in Tarlac City that I wrote about previously in NLEX-SCTEX: Get to Baguio Faster.

From Manila to Baguio last Friday, Nico decided to try the SCTEX Luisita exit. We are forever experimenting on the fastest routes to Baguio City you see, but still cannot bring ourselves to go all the way to Nueva Ecija via La Paz just to get to Baguio City, since there were not too many cars on the road on Friday, the 13th of February 2009 anyway.  Read more

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