CLARK FREEPORT ZONE – The Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) has announced it will engage the services of driverless cars at the New Clark City (NCC) in time for the coming South East Asian (SEA) Games in December.
BCDA president-CEO Vince Dizon said the BCDA will be signing a memorandum of agreement with an American company for the driver less cars and buses that will take athletes around the sports complex at NCC.
Dizon made the announcement during the inspection of the NCC sports complex with Senators Panfilo “Ping” Lacson and Gregorio “Gringo” Honasan II last week.
Honasan and Lacson earlier toured the 20,000-seater Athletics Stadium, the 2,000-seater Aquatics Center and the 1.4-kilometer Riverpark at the National Government Administrative Center (NGAC) at the NCC.
Lacson lauded the progress of NCC taking note that it is already more than 80 percent complete.
Honasan, meanwhile, encouraged more sustainable developments.
The NGAC, which is part of President Duterte’s plan to decongest Metro Manila, is situated at the NCC, the country’s first and only smart and green city to rise within the Clark Special Economic Zone and BCDA’s most ambitious project to date in partnership with infrastructure developer MTD Philippines.
A 200-hectare mixedused government center, meant to decentralize state offices from the capital, will primarily host offices of various government agencies at the NCC.
