THE Light Rail Manila Corp. (LRMC) has started piling works for the construction of supporting piers for the Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT-1) Cavite extension project, the Department of Transportation (DoTr) announced on Monday.
The works began on Sunday after the company finished its ground investigation and foundation designs.
The 11.7-kilometer extension required 203 piers, with the first 67 now being built between the planned Dr. Santos Station — where right of way has been cleared — and Ninoy Aquino Station, both in Parañaque City.
Construction on the next 40 from Ninoy Aquino to Asiaworld Station and 22 from Redemptorist Station to the existing Baclaran Station will start in November, and the remaining 74 — from AsiaWorld to Redemptorist — will begin early next year.
Expected to be completed by 2021, the project involves building eight stations from Baclaran to Niog Street in Bacoor City, Cavite province. The other stations are MIA, Las Piñas and Zapote.
Once operations begin in 2022, the project is seen to boost the current 500,000 passenger traffic to 800,000 a day, and cut travel time between Baclaran and Bacoor from one to two hours to 25 minutes.
The project has an initial cost of between P25 billion and P30 billion, LRMC President Juan Alfonso said last year. To finance this, LRMC secured P25 billion through bank loans.
“The rest will be equity from LRMC, which is 55-percent Metro Pacific Investments Corp., 35-percent Ayala and 10-percent Macquarie Infrastructure Holdings (Philippines),” he told reporters in August 2018.
https://www.manilatimes.net/2019/09/03/business/business-top/lrt-1-cavite-extension-project-begins-construction/610532/
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