The P68.2-billion Metro Rail Transit Line 7 (MRT-7) is 60.93 percent complete and will partially operate in April 2022, over two decades after the project’s unsolicited proposal was submitted.
The 22-kilometer railway running from North Avenue in Quezon City to San Jose Del Monte in Bulacan will be fully operational in the fourth quarter of 2022, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) yesterday (July 22) announced.
Earlier, the DOTr projected MRT-7 will be partially operational by December 2021 and fully operational in December 2022 but has now set back the partial operations date by four months.
Once completed, the 14-station MRT-7 will reduce travel time between Quezon City and Bulacan from 2-3 hours to 35 minutes.
The mass transport system will accommodate 300,000 to 850,000 passengers daily.
Its Unsolicited Proposal was first submitted to the government in 2001 and the MRT-7 Concession Agreement was signed in 2008.
However, “not a single post has been built and not a single train has been delivered until mid-2016, under the Duterte Administration, according to the DOTr.
The DOTr is tripling its capital expenditure for 11 big-ticket railway infrastructure from P90.756 Billion this year to P278.3 Billion in 2022, at the end of the Duterte administration, with 8 projects either completed or partially operational.
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