The Department of Transportation (DOTr) on Wednesday projected completing the Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP) right on schedule and be fully operational by 2029.
The MMSP, which has only recently started, stands 14 percent completed as of date and billed as the country’s first underground railway system and flagship project under the “Build Better More” program of the Marcos administration.
Spanning 33 kilometers across 8 local governments units in Metro Manila and passing through three central business districts, the expansive MMSP system will interconnect with LRT-1, MRT-3, and MRT-7 at the Common Station, LRT-2 at Anonas Station and a physical run through into the NSCR-EX at FTI and Bicutan Stations.
Passengers can board a subway train at the North Avenue Station and get off almost 100 kilometers away at the North-South Commuter Railway Extension Project’s Calamba Station without changing trains.
The subway also features a spur line to the NAIA at T3 Station which makes the airport reachable from Quezon City in as little as 40 minutes.
With eight-car train sets carrying up to 2,200 passengers per train, running as fast as 80 km/h, and with trains arriving at stations every five minutes.
The P488.5-billion project is also expected to serve 370,000 passengers a day on its first year of full operations, with capacity to serve up to 1 million passengers a day in later years.
The MMSP is physically interconnected and interoperable with the North-South Commuter Railway System’s south segment, enabling a passenger to board a subway train, for example, at the North Avenue Station and get off at the Calamba station of the NSCR
Also a flagship project under the Build Better More Program, the NSCR is a mega railway network spanning over 148 kilometers with 37 stations and 464 train cars encompassing three segments—the PNR Clark Phase 1 (Tutuban to
Malolos), PNR Clark Phase 2 (Malolos to Clark) and PNR Calamba (Solis to Calamba).
The mass transport project stretching across 26 cities and municipalities and across Central Luzon, National Capital Region and Calabarzon, is designed to serve over a million passengers daily once fully operational.
The project aims to reduce travel time between Clark, Pampanga and Calamba, Laguna to just two hours and service over 800,000 passengers daily once operational.
