[1] It ultimately led both the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to conclude that the construction of an interchange between the two roads was needed to speed up traffic.

[2] The entire interchange was inaugurated by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, accompanied by MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando, on May 5, 2009,[5] and opened to traffic the next day.

Within a week of the interchange's opening, the MMDA claimed that traffic speed and vehicular volume increased, with more than 150,000 cars now passing through the intersection daily, taking an estimated 30,000 vehicles off EDSA.

[12] Another Star columnist, James Deakin, argued that the location of the elevated U-turn slots was ill-conceived, even calling the interchange one of Metro Manila's worst eyesores.

[15] If the MMDA can spend millions in solving the traffic problem by building elevated U-turn slots along C-5, which many derisively call the ninth and tenth wonders of the world, then how come we don’t feel it is spending the same amount of money and effort for flood control?Structurally, the elevated U-turn slots have been criticized for failing global traffic standards,[16] even earning protest from a local association of structural engineers who questioned the interchange's safety.