Quote Originally Posted by Lew_Alcindor View Post
The MM traffic cannot be solved if we continue the current trajectory of development.
Imagine - 30% of the country's vehicles are registered in Metro Manila which has less than 1% of the country's total land area. Add the vehicles that go to MM during the day.

The only solution to this is to prevent people from using cars going in and out of the metropolis. How?

1. Build/rehabilitate the railway system north and south of MM. We recently went to La Union and my wife said they used to visit their dad's relatives there using the train. If we can have a decent PNR, people do not need to live in metro manila to work there, to not need to bring cars to go there. Alam naman natin na alam ng govt officials ang solution, ayaw lang nila gawin.
Tokyo-san's gonna fund the Tutuban-Malolos Northrail 2.0 and Tutuban-Los Banos commuter rail lines (elevated / electrified) (this is going to be the new NSCR project).

For Malolos-Clark, gov't is looking at having this JICA'ed as well [malalaman]. For LB-Bicolandia, gov't is looking at China to fund this [preliminary stages].

2. Decentralize a bit. I remember GMA's plan to have growth areas in different regions. Okay sana yun kasi hindi lahat ng tao sa probinsya sa Metro Manila na lang pupunta para mag-work. A plenary speaker of an urban sustainability conference I attended years ago said that cities are not bad, per se but we need poly-centrous development para hindi congested ang isang lugar.
Ito talaga kailangan natin gawin. We need to spread growth and development. Kaya napakaimportante na maayos ulit ang daangbakal.

Kasi yung maganda at maayos serbisyo ng mass rail transpo, imbis na manirahan ka pa sa MM, pwede maguwian nalang. Makakapag develop din ng bagong CBDs sa provinces.

Quote Originally Posted by supadude View Post
like shift the airport to clark, and shift the ship port to batangas maybe. build rails and expressways going to this places para accessible pa din kahit sa masa and hinde makapag samantala mga taxi.

problema kasi sa mga pinoy ayaw nang pagbabago, isipin magiging malayo na sila sa airport, yun mga goods mas malayo na byahe pag sa batangas pa kukunin.
Gov't just awarded the CRK new terminal project to GMR-Megawide to increase capacity to 12 mpa (in fairness, that was fast by gov't procurement standards - 6 months from NEDA approval until groundbreaking, which happened yesterday). (Downside: their renders looks like a carbon copy of their ongoing MCIA T2 project).

Gov't is encouraging its agencies to move to Clark Green City. But for this to be viable, NSCR has to happen first.

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Batangas Port - waaay too under utilized together with Subic, considering the billions we spent for the infra there. Long-term plan na hopefully I'm still alive to see this: revival of the defunct PNR Batangas Spur Line and extending it to the Pier. (though meron din kasing Manila Port Mafia headed by "you*know*who", who also fcked up Subic's port plans of Li Ka-shing during Tabako's time).