BUILD BUILD BUILD goes to Cebu.
Secretary Michael Lloyd Dino, chief of the Office of the
Presidential Assistant for the Visayas (OPAV),
The monorail system will serve as the mass transport backbone of Metro Cebu, and will become the main element of the Cebu IITS project of the Department of Transportation (DOTr).
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“The Duterte administration is determined to give the Cebuanos a
sigh of relief against the long-standing traffic problem in Cebu. Such
determination will be operationalized through this monorail project of Udenna
(Infrastructure Corp.) of Mr. Dennis Uy,” said Dino
Udenna revised its earlier proposal to build a Light rail Transit
(LRT) and instead proposed to implement the Cebu Rail Project using the
monorail technology.
Other components of the Cebu IITS will include the high priority
bus system, P2P (point-to-point) bus system, and intelligence traffic
management system.
When asked whats difference
between LRT and a monorail, Dino said a monorail is far easier to construct than
a LRT and has the same passenger-carrying capacity and operational efficiency
with that of the LRT system.
“Among
monorail’s plausible feature is its cost for its construction. With PHP80
billion or half of the LRT’s cost, Metro Cebu will enjoy a mass transport
backbone using the monorail technology,” Dino noted.
Countries
like US and Japan, monorails have also been a transport system in Malaysia,
Europe, Russia, Korea, China, Brazil, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, Dino
said.
"It's
high time to be at par with those countries. And with the new leadership in
Cebu province and the City of Cebu, I am confident that monorail will take a
center stage of Cebu's development. Let's make Cebu number one again," he
said.
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