Light Rail Manila Corp. (LRMC) is on track to start th construction of Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT 1) extension to Cavite by October.
Rodrigo Bulario, LRMC operations director, told reporters the company is waiting for the government to deliver the remaining five percent of right-of-way for Package 1 which runs from Redemptorist road, MIA road, Asiaworld, Ninoy Aquino avenue and Dr. Santos avenue.
The Cavite extension, totaling 11.7 kilometers in length, consists of elevated guideways throughout the majority of the alignment. The only at grade guideway section is at Zapote which will house the satellite depot and a new station.
The extension will connect to the existing Baclaran station of the existing LRT-1 to Cavite through eight additional stations namely Redemptorist, NAIA avenue, Asia World; Ninoy Aquino; Dr Santos; Las Pinas; Zapote; and Niog.
Dr. Santos, Zapote, and Niog stations shall provide transfers to other modes transportation.
Meanwhile, LRMC is also expected to launch this year a mobile application that will help improve customer service in LRT-1.
In partnership with the De La Salle-College of St. Benilde Hub for Innovation For Inclusion (DLS-CSB HIFI), LRMC launched Hackatren which aims to crowdsource for information technology (IT) applications that will help in further improving customer experience on LRT-1.
Juan Alfonso, LRMC president and chief executive officer, said “with Hackatren, we will showcase the IT programming skills of Filipinos. It will also be a platform for them to contribute to the uplift of customer experience at LRT-1.”
Hackatren is open to all Filipinos who are 18 years old and above, with a knack for programming, designing, and coding.
Interested applicants must form a team of three to four members, of which one is the designer or architect, and the rest are coders.
Registration is open from June 11 to June 30, 2018. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to the Hackatren pre-hack day on June 30, where IT experts and mentors from LRMC will orient the participants in preparation for the main Hackatren event.
Qualified teams will move on to the Hackatren event on July 14-15, 2018.
LRMC is a joint venture company of Metro Pacific Investments Corp.’s Metro Pacific Light Rail Corp., Ayala Corp.’s AC Infrastructure Holdings Corp. and the Philippine Investment Alliance for Infrastructure’s Macquarie Infrastructure Holdings (Philippines) PTE Ltd.
LRMC assumed operations and maintenance of LRT-1 in September 2015 through a 32-year concession agreement with the Department of Transportation and the Light Rail Transit Authority.
Since 2015, LRMC has spent P8 billion to accelerate improvements on Southeast Asia’s oldest railway system.
The projects include the replacement of the 26-kilometer rails and parapets, the light rail vehicle rehabilitation program and station improvement.
LRMC has also introduced and developed IT solutions that streamlined business processes which contributed to increased average daily trips by 9.7 percent from 505 trips in 2016 to 554 trips in 2017, and zero failure notice on train availability, punctuality and reliability in the first quarter of 2018.
Rodrigo Bulario, LRMC operations director, told reporters the company is waiting for the government to deliver the remaining five percent of right-of-way for Package 1 which runs from Redemptorist road, MIA road, Asiaworld, Ninoy Aquino avenue and Dr. Santos avenue.
The Cavite extension, totaling 11.7 kilometers in length, consists of elevated guideways throughout the majority of the alignment. The only at grade guideway section is at Zapote which will house the satellite depot and a new station.
The extension will connect to the existing Baclaran station of the existing LRT-1 to Cavite through eight additional stations namely Redemptorist, NAIA avenue, Asia World; Ninoy Aquino; Dr Santos; Las Pinas; Zapote; and Niog.
Dr. Santos, Zapote, and Niog stations shall provide transfers to other modes transportation.
Meanwhile, LRMC is also expected to launch this year a mobile application that will help improve customer service in LRT-1.
In partnership with the De La Salle-College of St. Benilde Hub for Innovation For Inclusion (DLS-CSB HIFI), LRMC launched Hackatren which aims to crowdsource for information technology (IT) applications that will help in further improving customer experience on LRT-1.
Juan Alfonso, LRMC president and chief executive officer, said “with Hackatren, we will showcase the IT programming skills of Filipinos. It will also be a platform for them to contribute to the uplift of customer experience at LRT-1.”
Hackatren is open to all Filipinos who are 18 years old and above, with a knack for programming, designing, and coding.
Interested applicants must form a team of three to four members, of which one is the designer or architect, and the rest are coders.
Registration is open from June 11 to June 30, 2018. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to the Hackatren pre-hack day on June 30, where IT experts and mentors from LRMC will orient the participants in preparation for the main Hackatren event.
Qualified teams will move on to the Hackatren event on July 14-15, 2018.
LRMC is a joint venture company of Metro Pacific Investments Corp.’s Metro Pacific Light Rail Corp., Ayala Corp.’s AC Infrastructure Holdings Corp. and the Philippine Investment Alliance for Infrastructure’s Macquarie Infrastructure Holdings (Philippines) PTE Ltd.
LRMC assumed operations and maintenance of LRT-1 in September 2015 through a 32-year concession agreement with the Department of Transportation and the Light Rail Transit Authority.
Since 2015, LRMC has spent P8 billion to accelerate improvements on Southeast Asia’s oldest railway system.
The projects include the replacement of the 26-kilometer rails and parapets, the light rail vehicle rehabilitation program and station improvement.
LRMC has also introduced and developed IT solutions that streamlined business processes which contributed to increased average daily trips by 9.7 percent from 505 trips in 2016 to 554 trips in 2017, and zero failure notice on train availability, punctuality and reliability in the first quarter of 2018.
