The Department of Transportation (DOTr) on Friday said the mass railway system common station will be finished within three years for the benefit of the benefit of most commuters.
"Tatapusin po namin ito sa kapakanan ng nakararami ... In two and a half to three years aandar ang common station," Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade said during the ground-breaking ceremony at the North Triangle Transport Terminal in Quezon City.
"We celebrate as we break ground, finishing is another," the Cabinet official said.
The common station will serve the Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT-1), the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3), the MRT-7—now under construction—and the recently approved Metro Manila Subway.
The 13,700-square meter station is estimated to cost P2.8 billion and is expected to be completed by 2019. It will serve approximately 478,000 commuters per day by 2020.
The common station will link Metro Manila's railway system has finally began construction on Friday after almost a decade of legal entanglements.
Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade led the groundbreaking ceremony along with government officials and private sector partners.
The project cost will covering a spacious concourse area, which is needed due to a larger number of commuter traffic from the extension of LRT-1 to Cavite, the completion of MRT-7 from City of San Jose Del Monte in Bulacan, and the connection to the Metro Manila Subway.
The common station will provide dual tracks for LRT-1, MRT-3, and MRT-7 for a higher level of operational efficiency.
The ground-breaking came months after the DOTr and the private sector stakeholders signed an agreement regarding the actual location.
On January 18, Metro Pacific Investments Corp., SM Prime Holdings Inc., Ayala Corp., and San Miguel Corp. signed a memorandum of agreement to build the common station between the 2009 proposed site in front of SM Annex and the 2013 proposed location near the TriNoma Mall. The agreement ended an eight-year deadlock that kept proponents of the common station from actually building the project.
House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez earlier criticized what was happening, saying it gave the interest of businessmen a higher priority than the plight of commuters.
The common station began to take shape in 2009 with a deal between the Light Rail Transit Authority and SM Prime Holdings to build it closer to the SM North EDSA mall.
But in 2013, the then-Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) decided to build the station near TriNoma, citing a study that the government could supposedly save P800 million to P1 billion if the project is relocated closer to the Ayala-controlled mall.
SM Prime Holdings sued the DOTC and LRTA for breach of the 2009 agreement.
In August 2014, the SC issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) in favor of SM Prime Holdings stopping the construction of the common station.
In May 2016, the SC extended the TRO to cover the relocation of the common station. — VDS, GMA News
"Tatapusin po namin ito sa kapakanan ng nakararami ... In two and a half to three years aandar ang common station," Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade said during the ground-breaking ceremony at the North Triangle Transport Terminal in Quezon City.
"We celebrate as we break ground, finishing is another," the Cabinet official said.
The common station will serve the Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT-1), the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3), the MRT-7—now under construction—and the recently approved Metro Manila Subway.
The 13,700-square meter station is estimated to cost P2.8 billion and is expected to be completed by 2019. It will serve approximately 478,000 commuters per day by 2020.
The common station will link Metro Manila's railway system has finally began construction on Friday after almost a decade of legal entanglements.
Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade led the groundbreaking ceremony along with government officials and private sector partners.
The project cost will covering a spacious concourse area, which is needed due to a larger number of commuter traffic from the extension of LRT-1 to Cavite, the completion of MRT-7 from City of San Jose Del Monte in Bulacan, and the connection to the Metro Manila Subway.
The common station will provide dual tracks for LRT-1, MRT-3, and MRT-7 for a higher level of operational efficiency.
The ground-breaking came months after the DOTr and the private sector stakeholders signed an agreement regarding the actual location.
On January 18, Metro Pacific Investments Corp., SM Prime Holdings Inc., Ayala Corp., and San Miguel Corp. signed a memorandum of agreement to build the common station between the 2009 proposed site in front of SM Annex and the 2013 proposed location near the TriNoma Mall. The agreement ended an eight-year deadlock that kept proponents of the common station from actually building the project.
House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez earlier criticized what was happening, saying it gave the interest of businessmen a higher priority than the plight of commuters.
The common station began to take shape in 2009 with a deal between the Light Rail Transit Authority and SM Prime Holdings to build it closer to the SM North EDSA mall.
But in 2013, the then-Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) decided to build the station near TriNoma, citing a study that the government could supposedly save P800 million to P1 billion if the project is relocated closer to the Ayala-controlled mall.
SM Prime Holdings sued the DOTC and LRTA for breach of the 2009 agreement.
In August 2014, the SC issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) in favor of SM Prime Holdings stopping the construction of the common station.
In May 2016, the SC extended the TRO to cover the relocation of the common station. — VDS, GMA News
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