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Tugade still keen on cable cars


Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade on Thursday revived the idea of installing cable cars to solve the worsening traffic situation in the country.

"There are also conversations that I have not forgotten about the cable car," Tugade said during the Asia CEO Forum in Pasay City.

The Transport chief said the Department of Transportation is finalizing certain details of the plan.

"Hopefully, I would be able to convince proponents to agree on the rate...," Tugade said.

"I want the rate of the cable car more ore less parallel with the rates of the jeepney, the bus, the taxi, LRT, and MRT. I don't want a rate that is high so that, you know, the public can benefit," he said.

Before the Duterte administration assumed office in June 2016, Tugade said they were in exploratory talks with a company that manufactured cable cars for Bolivia.

He then said that the cable car will be started somewhere in the Pasig area with a capacity of 35 passengers per car.

Apart from cable cars, the Transport chief also said the DOTr and the Asian Development Bank are finalizing the details for the elevated "walkalator" to be put up somewhere along Ortigas in Pasig City and Market! Market! Mall in Taguig City.

"They said once we start we will finish in one and-a-half years," Tugade said. — RSJ, GMA News

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