TO EVENTUALLY EXTEND TO CLARK P271.19-B rails plan afoot to link Malolos, Calamba

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    CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – The government is pursuing plans for a P271.19-billion  railways system called  North-South  Commuter Rail Line (NS-CRL) that would link Malolos, Bulacan and Calamba, Laguna.

    It will be the initial project to be done under the government’s Integrated Luzon Railway  Project (ILRP), the Department of  Transportation and Communications (DOTC) has bared.

    The DOTC said the  NS-CRL would revive plans to link  Central and Southern Talaglog regions that was also the mission of the aborted  North Railways Projectunder the Arroyo administration.

    The NS-CRL project would provide a modern railway link between Malolos  and Caloocan City from where the South Rail would be rehabilitated through Alabang and  Laguna.

    The government Public-Private  Partnership Center estimated  the NS-CRL to cost about P271.19 billion for a stretch of 89.7 kilometers between  Malolos and Calamba. Transportation and  Communications Sec. Joseph Emilio Abaya  said the project would be under the Build-Operate-Transfer scheme with the concessionaire  entitled to manage and operate the project for 20 to 30 years.

    The winner in the bidding for the project would  not only construct the railways, but also provide rollings   stocks including the trains, the railways, a modern signal system, bridges and  viaducts to complete the entire system,  the DOTC also said. 

    Under the ILRP, the railways project would  eventually extend to the Clark International Airport at  Clark Freeport  which former Pres. Ramos, in his Executive Order No. 174, designated as the “future site of  the   Philippines’ premier gateway."

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