{"id":6338,"date":"2015-02-18T18:50:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T10:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6338"},"modified":"2015-02-18T18:50:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T10:50:26","slug":"p288b-rail-to-open-in-2020-malaya-business-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/18\/p288b-rail-to-open-in-2020-malaya-business-insight\/","title":{"rendered":"P288B rail to open in 2020 &#124; Malaya Business Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cFor a mega city like Manila,\u00a0 a consequence of a growing economy is the growing capacity of our people to own vehicles. With our traffic (situation), that is not the way to go. The solution to that is to develop mass transit systems. Thus, government is investing in rails, in BRTs (bus rapid transit systems) (and) likewise reforming the bus system,\u201d said Joseph Emilio Abaya, secretary\u00a0 of the Department of Transportation and Communication.Abaya said\u00a0 at present there is a right mix of population using public transportation and those using private cars,\u00a0 80:20. But public utility vehicles (PUVs)\u00a0 in the country are in smaller modes like jeeps, tricycles and utility vehicles.\u201cThe direction is to migrate the smaller PUVs to mass transport systems and eventually migrate private owners into mass transit systems,\u201d Abaya said.NSCR Phase 1 involves the construction of a 36.7-kilometer narrow-gauge elevated commuter railway from Malolos to Tutuban.Abaya said\u00a0 government is looking to finance Phase 1 through loans from the Japan International Cooperation Agency or through the national budget\u00a0 whichever can deliver fast.Project\u00a0\u00a0 construction is set in the first quarter of 2017, for\u00a0 completion by third quarter of 2020.The NSCR Phase 1 will use the Philippine National Railway\u2019s right-of-way with 10 stations and a depot at Valenzuela, Bulacan The project\u2019s total estimated cost is P117.3 billion and targeted to be implemented from 2015 with a 35-year operation period starting 2020.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malaya.com.ph\/business-news\/business\/p288b-rail-open-2020\">P288B rail to open in 2020 | Malaya Business Insight<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor a mega city like Manila,\u00a0 a consequence of a growing economy is the growing capacity of our people to own vehicles. With our traffic (situation), that is not the way to go. The solution to that is to develop mass transit systems. Thus, government is investing in rails, in BRTs (bus rapid transit systems) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/18\/p288b-rail-to-open-in-2020-malaya-business-insight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;P288B rail to open in 2020 &#124; Malaya Business Insight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}