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Answer: Because them "alta de sociedad" folks who live in the posh villages along that stretch did not want the train to pass overhead because people would see their houses. According to them, they only have the security of their village in mind - people who ride the MRT (if the track on that stretch would be an overhead track) might hatch an idea to "do their homes harm".

In Tagalog, sila ay natakot kase baka daw pag isipan nakawan o kaya gawan sila ng masama. I'm not making this up - this is true. AFAIK, they even filed case in court against constructing the Buendia-Ayala stretch of the MRT as an overhead section and against the same stretch being on ground level - and they won.

Their...their...."concern" actually delayed the construction of the railway by nearly a year.
ang labo din ng logic nila. pano naman yung mga dumadaan sa mga flyovers dyan, nakikita rin naman yung village nila from the flyovers. pwede pa nga huminto sa taas yung car para mas ma-survey nila yung loob ng village, e yung sa mrt hindi naman humihinto sa tapat ng villages nila.