In my column last week, I wrote on the dismal failure of the administration of President Benigno S. Aquino 3rd these past four years to address the perennial flooding problem of Metro Manila and the overuse and abuse of the Mass Rail Transit (MRT) 3. My article also touched on the inability of the national government to build new public works and transportation projects with its Public-Private Partnership (PPP) deemed as a failure.

An excellent example on how the incompetent Aquino administration vacillates is on the concession of the 94-km Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEX). The Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (MPTC) won in the bidding of SCTEX in 2010 during the term of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. So what happened? Why until today has the 25-year concession for the operation and management not been turned over to MPTC?

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