From a new Dumaguete airport, the extension and expansion of planned MRT-3 upgrades, and maintenance for air traffic services, these are the ‘high-impact’ projects of the Marcos administration.
MANILA, Philippines – After months of promising openness to Private-Public Partnerships and an infrastructure push, the Marcos administration on Friday, February 3, announced the first seven “high-impact” projects approved by the National Economic and Development Authority board.Not all of these are projects unique to the Marcos administration. Several are, requests for the extension of ongoing projects, or the authorization to use the balance of an existing loan.
“In the coming weeks our experts in UP-PGH as the implementing agency will bare the specific details to inform the public and interested private partners,” he added. If things go as planned, Negros Oriental will have a new airport within seven years, under the New Dumaguete Airport Development Project of the Department of Transportation .
It covers several ancestral domains in the southernmost Philippine island group, particularly those in the Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao, Davao Region, Soccsksargen, Caraga, and Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao. According to the ADB, “the project will support the establishment of a modern urban bus system in Davao City to improve the current unreliable, unsafe, not accessible for all, and environmentally challenging public transport.”
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