IF it pushes through, the proposed P370-billion (or US$8-billion) Mass Transit System Loop (MTSL) project will go down in Philippine history as one of the most wasteful, idiotic and ill-conceived infrastructure project undertaken by the government, and particularly, by the PNoy administration.

The proposed 20-kilometer MTSL project – the brainchild of Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya – would consist of a 16-kilometer-long tunnel and four kilometers of elevated railway along the reclaimed area in Pasay City.

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