Posted on January 26, 2015 10:28:00 PM
[ BusinessWorld Online ]
By Chrisee J. V. Dela Paz, Reporter
THE COUNTRY’s first subway will count
26th Avenue in Bonifacio Global City (BGC) as a train stop, the head of the
government’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Center said.
A VIEW of the Fort Bonifacio Global
City skyline from the grounds of the Manila Golf and Country Club -- BW FILE
PHOTO
A committee of the National Economic
and Development Authority (NEDA) committee has picked the upscale street as the
site for one of the stations for the proposed P378.33-billion
Makati-Pasay-Taguig Mass Transit Loop, PPP Center Executive Director Cosette V.
Canilao said.
The decision was made after technical advisors
assured the Manila Golf and Country Club that the undertaking will not disrupt
the latter’s operations, she added.
But it is the NEDA Board, where
President Benigno S. C. Aquino III sits as chairman, that has the last say.
“There’s a preferred alignment
attached to the condition for approval, it’s the 26th street [sic] but that’s
for the NEDA-ICC (Investment Coordination Committee), it might change in the
NEDA Board,” Ms. Canilao told reporters on the sidelines of an event in Makati
City on Friday.
“There’s continuous discussion with
Manila Golf if it will be felt on the surface. Our technical advisors assured
that engineering solutions will be implemented for them not to feel it. They
are open to it, the dialog is still continuing,” she added.
The subway system was one of the seven
infrastructure projects approved by the NEDA committee last Jan. 14.
