The groundbreaking of the common station linking the Light Rail Transit (LRT) and the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) is expected by September this year.
Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade told reporters on the sidelines of the progress briefing and inspection of the Build, Build, Build (BBB) projects Thursday as he appealed for support of the initiative.
“The riding public wants to have the common station be built. The leadership of the Congress supports this project as well. This common station will be made possible through the cooperation and support of everyone,” the transportation secretary said.
Expected to be completed by April 2019, the 13,700 square meter common station will connect LRT Line 1 (LRT-1), Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3), and the MRT-7 from North Avenue, Quezon City to San Jose del Monte, Bulacan.
It is a joint project of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Department of Transportation (DOTr), SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (SMPH), Universal LRT Corporation (BVI) Limited of the San Miguel Corporation (SMC), Light Rail Manila Corporation (LRMC), North Triangle Depot Commercial Corporation (NTDCC), Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), and the Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA).
A memorandum of agreement was signed last January by the government, Metro Pacific Investments Corp. Chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan, SM Prime Holdings, Inc. Director Hans T. Sy, Ayala Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jaime Zobel de Ayala, and San Miguel Corp. (SMC) President and CEO Ramon S. Ang which indicated that that the common station will be located in the middle of the original 2009 site in front of The Annex at SM City North EDSA and the 2013 location near Ayala’s TriNoma mall in Quezon City, ending a deadlock spanning nearly eight years.
It was supposed to be a compromise for an earlier agreement with SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (SMPHI) which did not materialize and the project has been in a legal entanglement ever since, resulting led to the arrest and detention of former president and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from a controversy after a Pasay court issued a warrant of arrest against her, following the filing of a complaint for electoral sabotage by the Commission on Elections and She was transferred to the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City on December 9, 2011, the impeachment trial, conviction and removal of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona on May 31, 2012 and his death on April 29 due to complications of a heart attack and suffered from kidney disease and diabetes last year and outgoing plunder trial case of former senators Jinggoy Estrada and Ramon Revilla, Jr. and the arrest warrant against Senator Leila de Lima for allegedly violating the drug trafficking law.
The government will shell out PHP 2.8 billion for the construction of the common station’s Area A -- where the platform and entrance for LRT-1 and MRT-3 will be located.
The PHP2.8 billion will be financed and built by the DoTr, while the operation, maintenance, and development will be split between Light Rail Manila Corp. for LRT-1 and DoTr for MRT-3.
Henry Sy-led SM and Ayala Land’s TriNoma will have naming rights for the common station.
Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade told reporters on the sidelines of the progress briefing and inspection of the Build, Build, Build (BBB) projects Thursday as he appealed for support of the initiative.
“The riding public wants to have the common station be built. The leadership of the Congress supports this project as well. This common station will be made possible through the cooperation and support of everyone,” the transportation secretary said.
Expected to be completed by April 2019, the 13,700 square meter common station will connect LRT Line 1 (LRT-1), Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3), and the MRT-7 from North Avenue, Quezon City to San Jose del Monte, Bulacan.
It is a joint project of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Department of Transportation (DOTr), SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (SMPH), Universal LRT Corporation (BVI) Limited of the San Miguel Corporation (SMC), Light Rail Manila Corporation (LRMC), North Triangle Depot Commercial Corporation (NTDCC), Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), and the Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA).
A memorandum of agreement was signed last January by the government, Metro Pacific Investments Corp. Chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan, SM Prime Holdings, Inc. Director Hans T. Sy, Ayala Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jaime Zobel de Ayala, and San Miguel Corp. (SMC) President and CEO Ramon S. Ang which indicated that that the common station will be located in the middle of the original 2009 site in front of The Annex at SM City North EDSA and the 2013 location near Ayala’s TriNoma mall in Quezon City, ending a deadlock spanning nearly eight years.
It was supposed to be a compromise for an earlier agreement with SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (SMPHI) which did not materialize and the project has been in a legal entanglement ever since, resulting led to the arrest and detention of former president and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from a controversy after a Pasay court issued a warrant of arrest against her, following the filing of a complaint for electoral sabotage by the Commission on Elections and She was transferred to the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City on December 9, 2011, the impeachment trial, conviction and removal of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona on May 31, 2012 and his death on April 29 due to complications of a heart attack and suffered from kidney disease and diabetes last year and outgoing plunder trial case of former senators Jinggoy Estrada and Ramon Revilla, Jr. and the arrest warrant against Senator Leila de Lima for allegedly violating the drug trafficking law.
The government will shell out PHP 2.8 billion for the construction of the common station’s Area A -- where the platform and entrance for LRT-1 and MRT-3 will be located.
The PHP2.8 billion will be financed and built by the DoTr, while the operation, maintenance, and development will be split between Light Rail Manila Corp. for LRT-1 and DoTr for MRT-3.
Henry Sy-led SM and Ayala Land’s TriNoma will have naming rights for the common station.
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