The Philippine National Railways (PNR) has stopped operating certain routes to make way for the construction of the North-South Commuter Railway (NSCR) project.
In a borrowed room not far from the Buendia Station of the Philippine National Railways in Makati, where I stay on some days when I’m too tired to drive home, I often hear the blaring whistle of a passing PNR train.
Indeed, last month, the PNR stopped operating its Governor Pascual-Tutuban and Tutuban-Alabang routes to make way for the construction of the much touted North-South Commuter Railway project. “That precisely is the reason why we need to stop operations since the track that the PNR is currently utilizing will be right where the pillars of the elevated NSCR system will be installed,” Transportation Undersecretary Jeremy Regino said last month, as quoted by the Philippine Information Agency.
It was not the most convenient ride. Riding the PNR is like walking the gauntlet. While the coaches are relatively clean and there is an air-conditioning system, the whole system itself is problematic and sorely needs modernization. Our government owes it to them to make NSCR a really better rail system. It’s high time we have an efficient mass rail system.The PNR officially began operations on Nov. 24, 1892 as the Ferrocarril de Manila-Dagupan. It later became the Manila Railroad Company during the American colonial period. It became the Philippine National Railways on June 20, 1964 by virtue of Republic Act No. 4156, according to data on the PNR website.
Employers nowadays complain about the “new generation” of employees who behave more like transient or transit passengers at an airport rather than long-term staff in companies.
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