The unnecessary 8 km detour at SCTEX Subic Tipo exit

If you take the Subic exit of the SCTex and want to go on to Tipo, you can not make a U-turn right before the Tipo tollbooths. Instead you are forced to go through the tollbooths, pay the P18 toll fee (for Class 1), travel approximately 4 kilometers and make the U-turn just before you reach the SBMA Tipo gate. Then go back the 4 kilometers, pay the P18 toll fee again at the Tipo tollbooth to exit so that you can continue on to the Tipo exit.

And if you are coming from Tipo and want to get on the SCTex, you pretty much have to take the same route - travel an unnecessary 8 kilometers and pay an additional P36 pesos.

Why cars are not allowed to make the U-turn just before the Tipo tollbooth is beyond me. What is the difference between making the U-turn there and making the U-turn at the SBMA gate? While the road leading to the SBMA gate is physically wider, the U-turn radius is actually smaller because plastic cones have been semi-permanently placed on one lane of the other side. SoWhoever designed/planned the Tipo exit of the SCTex most probably took a page from Sec. Neri's friends. Here's why -

If you take the Subic exit of the SCTex and want to go on to Tipo, you can not make a U-turn right before the Tipo tollbooths. Instead you are forced to go through the tollbooths, pay the P18 toll fee (for Class 1), travel approximately 4 kilometers and make the U-turn just before you reach the SBMA Tipo gate. Then go back the 4 kilometers, pay the P18 toll fee again at the Tipo tollbooth to exit so that you can continue on to the Tipo exit.

And if you are coming from Tipo and want to get on the SCTex, you pretty much have to take the same route - travel an unnecessary 8 kilometers and pay an additional P36 pesos.

Why cars are not allowed to make the U-turn just before the Tipo tollbooth is beyond me. What is the difference between making the U-turn there and making the U-turn at the SBMA gate? While the road leading to the SBMA gate is physically wider, the U-turn radius is actually smaller because plastic cones have been semi-permanently placed on one lane of the other side. So what is really the difference?

Well, if just 100 Class 1 vehicles have to take the detour each day, that is P3,600 daily or an annual undeserved P1,314,000.00 additional revenue for somebody.

But at what costs - aside from the additional time travel it takes to to make the U-turn?

If we assume the same vehicles use an additional 1 liter of gasoline to make the 8 kilometer detour, a total of 100 liters is being consumed unnecessarily on a daily basis. At P36 per liter, that's P3,600 daily or P1,314,000.00 annually being wasted.

So why is this being allowed?