Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista on Wednesday announced that his department has received unsolicited proposals to develop two new railway systems for Metro Manila.
“We are in the process of identifying other railway lines. There are four operating lines now; the next operating line will be MRT-7. There is an unsolicited proposal for MRT-11, which is from Monumento to San Jose del Monte. We are evaluating this unsolicited proposal…There is also a proposal to have an MRT along C5,” Bautista said during the Management Association of the Philippines general membership meeting in Taguig City.
“We will review and compare the documents. We will review it since it is an unsolicited proposal, it will be subjected to a Swiss challenge,” he said. On the proposed C5 Railway Project or the MRT-10 line, Bautista said it will run through the Circumferential Road 5 to connect Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 in Pasay City all the way to Taguig City.The Cabinet official, during the forum, said there are other railway projects which are undergoing feasibility studies and are subject for the National Economic and Development Authority’s approval.
The Transportation chief said the agency is also planning to privatize the operations of the Light Rail Transit Line 2 and MRT-3 in two years.
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