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The government will complete the Metro Rail Transit 7
(MRT 7) in a year’s time.
The MRT 7 is the “missing
link” between the SM North Metro Rail Transit station and
Monumento, and Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said it will be
ready in 12 months. He added the network would later be “extended
all the way to Bulacan.”
Ermita said the documents on the
construction of MRT 7 was signed two weeks ago. “I know that it is
a ‘go thing’ already,” he said.
With the MRT 7, the MRT 3, which
traverses EDSA, will be linked to the Light Rail Transit 1 (LRT 1),
which is the first-ever mass transport system in all of Southeast
Asia and built three years ahead of the Singapore’s city rail
system. The LRT 1 traverses Rizal and Taft Avenues.
--Angelo S. Samonte
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