#ANCRecap: DOTr leads groundbreaking ceremony of the LRT-MRT common station. @jacquemanabat reports. pic.twitter.com/rlmmt6c0es— ABS-CBN News Channel (@ANCALERTS) September 29, 2017
The government on Friday broke ground on a common station that will serve hundreds of thousands of commuters using the country's railways and planned subway system.
The P2.8-billion structure, which will be built between the Annex at SM North Edsa and Landmark-Trinoma shopping malls, will be completed in 2019, the Department of Transportation said in a statement.
The common station will interconnect lines 1 and 2 of the Light Rail Transit, Metro Rail Transit line 3 and the soon-to-be-built MRT line 7, and the Mega Manila Subway, the department said.
The ground level of the common station will be used by buses, jeeps, and Asian utility vehicles, according to the statement.
Construction on the common station was held back by a decade due to a dispute on its location. The Light Rail Transit Authority signed a deal with SMPHI to build the station near SM North EDSA.
On July 30, 2014, SM Prime Holdings, Inc. obtained a TRO from the high court to prevent the then Department of Transportation and Communications from transferring the common station near Trinoma.
The basis of the order was a September 28, 2009 memorandum of agreement between SMPHI and LRTA, agreeing that the common station should be beside The Annex at SM City North EDSA after the mall developer paid the government P200 million for the naming rights to the proposed station.
Despite the agreement, the government in 2014 insisted that putting up the proposed common station near TriNoma mall would result in "P1 billion in savings to the government" and benefit passengers as the Quezon City government is establishing the North Triangle area as a new business district.
When Tugade assumed office, he promised to get all stakeholders to reach an agreement on the common station within his first 100 days. -- with Jacque Manabat, ABS-CBN News
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