A member of Congress is counting on the Duterte administration’s massive railway projects in the Visayas and Mindanao to serve as “great equalizers” to the tens of billions of pesos that the national government has been spending every year to subsidize Luzon’s commuter trains.
Both the 71-kilometer Cebu Light Rail Transit (LRT) and the 2,000-km Mindanao train projects are expected to help correct the huge imbalance in the allocation of taxpayer money for public transportation, according to House Deputy Majority Leader and Cebu Rep. Gerald Anthony Gullas Jr.
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