Updates
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) opened the Santa Monica-Lawton Bridge, now dubbed Kalayaan Bridge, as the Philippines celebrated its 123rd Independence Day on Saturday, June 12.
Kalayaan Bridge is a key component of the road project linking business districts Bonifacio Global City (BGC) and Ortigas Center, which is part of the government's plan to decongest EDSA.
Ortigas-BGC Link
The Metro Rail Transit Line 4, also known as MRT Line 4, is an approved monorail rapid transit line to be built in Metro Manila and Rizal in the Philippines. When completed, it will be the first monorail line in the Philippines and the second rapid transit line serving the province of Rizal after the extension of LRT Line 2 to Antipolo.
The proposal, consists of eleven stations, will have a right-of-way alignment along N. Domingo, Ortigas Avenue and Taytay Diversion Road,[3] linking suburban Taytay, Rizal to the Ortigas Center business district in eastern Metro Manila.[3]
The project costed an estimated ₱59.3 billion or US$1.1 billion.[3][4] It was approved by the Investment Coordination Committee (ICC) of the National Economic and Development Authority last June 2015 as a public–private partnership project.[5] The initial project was not pushed through until it was approved for a second time on December 20, 2019
MRT Line 4
https://weareortigas.com/mega-manila-subway-project-update/
The Mega Manila Subway is already one step closer to reality. The first tranche of a loan for the Metro Manila subway project is in. Philippine and Japanese officials inked on Friday the ₱51.37-billion (104.53-billion Japanese Yen) loan agreement, meant to kickstart construction for the estimated P355.6-billion project. It is expected to be repaid within 40 years with a 12-year grace period.
The 25-kilometer underground railway, initially pegged at ₱227 billion, is expected to benefit 370,000 passengers a day. The Department of Transportation (DOTr) reported a five-kilometer extension was also planned. According to DOTr, the subway will have 14 stations from Mindanao Avenue in Quezon City to Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay City, including two additional stations connected to the Light Rail Transit (LRT)-1. One of the stops, which is Ortigas South, is set to be at Capitol Commons. It will give it's residents another means of transportation, not to mention accessibility to NAIA once fully-operational.
The Philippines was represented by Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez, Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno, and Transportation Undersecretary for Railways TJ Batan. Japan International Cooperation Agency Chief Representative Yoshio Wada, outgoing Chief Representative Susumo Ito, and Japan Embassy representative Noboru Kageyama signed for Japan. Groundbreaking for the subway is set for the end of 2018. Target completion is by 2025, but Transport Secretary Arthur Tugade previously told The Source that he hopes to have three stations operational in the next two years.+
The subway is part of President Rodrigo Duterte's "Build, Build, Build" program. The infrastructure plan is one of the administration's efforts against notorious traffic in the Philippines, which has been reported to cost the country Php 3.5 billion a day.
Mega Manila Subway Project Update
Can the East be the next BGC? Hmmm, completely possible! The country's biggest developers are now building this multi-billion peso development which will make the area a Riverside Metropolitan Paradise.
C5 Corridor: The Next Central Business District of Metro Manila
