MERGED: Cebu BRT (Bus Rapid Transit)

[kiker]

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btaw cebu nasad... parho rasad ta nila nag bayad og tax

[LanCe]

dapat i change na nato atong system of govt.!

awa gud, kitay dako kaayo ug income pero ang infrastructures kay didto tanan gi buhos!..unfair kaayo!..kitay kayod diri Cebu pero sila didto,cge pag rally,sila pajud naay mga projects na dapat kitay mu benefit!..damn imperialism!

[eelssej_]

there's is a plan to put up our own railway system here in cebu...

sa sm daw dapit ang main station...

[brian_d]

dapat i change na nato atong system of govt.!

awa gud, kitay dako kaayo ug income pero ang infrastructures kay didto tanan gi buhos!..unfair kaayo!..kitay kayod diri Cebu pero sila didto,cge pag rally,sila pajud naay mga projects na dapat kitay mu benefit!..damn imperialism!

FYI, Metro Manila's GDP per Capita is 5x times bigger than Cebu this despite having a population of 10million plus. Yes Cebu is the biggest provincial taxpayer, but Manila does generate the biggest income/tax revenue. It's not as if the economy in Metro Manila is in shams while you do all the work in Cebu. Quezon City and Makati's local govt. is 100% sufficient, they are not dependent on the National Govt. to operate locally. The rest of the NCR cities are at least 80% self sufficient. Cebu City on the otherhand relies on the National govt. of its operating expenses. Just thinking? Have you actually been here in Manila?

[Wind Shear]

dapat i change na nato atong system of govt.!

awa gud, kitay dako kaayo ug income pero ang infrastructures kay didto tanan gi buhos!..unfair kaayo!..kitay kayod diri Cebu pero sila didto,cge pag rally,sila pajud naay mga projects na dapat kitay mu benefit!..damn imperialism!

FYI, Metro Manila's GDP per Capita is 5x times bigger than Cebu this despite having a population of 10million plus. Yes Cebu is the biggest provincial taxpayer, but Manila does generate the biggest income/tax revenue. It's not as if the economy in Metro Manila is in shams while you do all the work in Cebu. Quezon City and Makati's local govt. is 100% sufficient, they are not dependent on the National Govt. to operate locally. The rest of the NCR cities are at least 80% self sufficient. Cebu City on the otherhand relies on the National govt. of its operating expenses. Just thinking? Have you actually been here in Manila?

And have you ever heard that the IRA for Cebu is only 30%?

[jerx d great]

cebu nasad oi!!!

[Wind Shear]

dapat i change na nato atong system of govt.!

awa gud, kitay dako kaayo ug income pero ang infrastructures kay didto tanan gi buhos!..unfair kaayo!..kitay kayod diri Cebu pero sila didto,cge pag rally,sila pajud naay mga projects na dapat kitay mu benefit!..damn imperialism!

FYI, Metro Manila's GDP per Capita is 5x times bigger than Cebu this despite having a population of 10million plus. Yes Cebu is the biggest provincial taxpayer, but Manila does generate the biggest income/tax revenue. It's not as if the economy in Metro Manila is in shams while you do all the work in Cebu. Quezon City and Makati's local govt. is 100% sufficient, they are not dependent on the National Govt. to operate locally. The rest of the NCR cities are at least 80% self sufficient. Cebu City on the otherhand relies on the National govt. of its operating expenses. Just thinking? Have you actually been here in Manila?

And have you ever heard that the IRA for Cebu is only 30%?

And where the hell did you get so called facts?

Addendum: Don't worry brian_d, we Cebuanos will work excruciating hard in order to surpass Manila and it will reach the point that the companies based in Manila will entriely migrate office here in Cebu.

[brian_d]

Yup I've heard about it, however do you also know that the cities of Makati and Quezon city have 0% IRA? My point is it is a misconstrued idea that NCR's cities, is taking revenues from more progressive provinces like Cebu for its operational requirements. On thier own they are self sufficient, thank you very much. If for anything blame poor provinces like Quezon, Marinduque, Masbate, Ilocos Sur, Cagayan Valley for eating up Cebu's hard earned revenues. Not Manila.

Having said that, if only all provinces in this country would be like Cebu then we would be much better off. Got to give credit to the "my home province Cebu" not any province in the country can boast of achieving steady progress and independently attracting foreign investors without the help of the national govt.

[grabehbebe]

UPDATE: DOTC finalizing MRT extension plan

The design of the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3) extension project that will connect to the Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT-1) in Caloocan City will be finalized soon, according to Transportation Secretary Leandro Mendoza.

The design will include a possible construction of a subway station in Monumento.

Mendoza said the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) has hired a consultant who will submit the project design before the end of this month.

The bidding process for the project will immediately follow after the design has been submitted.

Mendoza said the MRT extension project could cost some US$200 million in civil works alone because of the construction of a subway in Monumento.

The subway, he said, would be constructed at the targeted connecting point of the MRT-3 and LRT-1 in Monumento for the grand plan of connecting all of Metro Manila’s railway systems.

"Kasi ang gagawin natin dito ay gawing grand station ang Caloocan. The Northrail, Southrail, MRT-3 and LRT-1 will meet there," he said.

Once completed, the project will extend the existing MRT-3 line to Monumento in Caloocan from the current end-station on North Avenue in Quezon City.

The extension will then link MRT-3 to the LRT-1 via the Monumento station.

The MRT-3 is currently linked to LRT Line 2 (LRT-2) via their respective stations in Cubao, Quezon City.

A pedestrian link, on the other hand, connects the LRT-1 to the LRT-2 via the Doroteo Jose station.

The ongoing-NorthRail project starts in Monumento going to Malolos City, Bulacan while the SouthRail also begins in Monumento going to Calamba, Laguna.

Meanwhile, officials of the MRT and LRT announced yesterday there would be no trains operating on Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Black Saturday.

This would give way to normal maintenance work on the coaches as well as on signaling, communications and automatic fare collection equipment.

Operations resume on Easter Sunday.


-By Sandy Araneta
The Philippine Star 03/28/2006
http://www.philstar.com/philstar/NEWS200603286312.htm

[grabehbebe]

$200-M, partly underground rail to link MRT and LRT-1

http://money.inq7.net/topstories/vie...3&dd=29&file=1

THE Department of Transportation and Communication is finalizing the design of a rail system that will link the overhead Metro Rail Transit (MRT) that runs along the EDSA highway 3 with Line 1 of the overhead Light Rail Transit (LRT) from North Avenue in Quezon City to the Monumento area of Caloocan City, Transportation and Communication Secretary Leandro Mendoza said.

Up to $200 million will be needed for the civil works phase, Mendoza said.

The 5.12-kilometer rail link, dubbed MRT Phase 2, will have underground sections in the northern portions of EDSA to avoid existing structures, he said. "We will have a subway because of some technical problems," he said Mendoza said the Department of Transportation and Communications had hired a consultant, the Louis Berger group, which he said was tasked to submit the project's design before end-March.

Louis Berger is a US-based engineering consulting firm that at present has major contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan for the American government, he said.
Mendoza said the Monumento station would become the central railway station linking LRT-1 with the MRT and the proposed ground-level North Rail, which will connect Metro Manila with Bulacan province.

He said that eventually a South Rail system that would link Metro Manila with southern Luzon would also have its terminal at the Monumento station, which he described as the future "Grand Central" station of the Philippines.

Once Louis Berger has submitted its design proposal, bidding for MRT Phase 2 will follow, he said.

The MRT is linked by pedestrian access in the Cubao area of Quezon City with Line 2 of the LRT. A pedestrian link also connects LRT-1 to LRT-2 at a station on Doroteo Jose Street in Manila. A similar pedestrian link connects the MRT with the LRT-1 at the stations at the intersection of EDSA and Taft Avenue in Pasay City. Daxim Lucas, with INQ7.net