The incoming president is true to its previous words during the campaign period that he would put up a railway station in Mindanao and some parts in Luzon. He said in one of his interview that ‘a nation will not grow without a railway system’.
Saturday night in a hotel in Davao, Duterte mounted another press conference reiterating his vision for a railway system that links Manila to Nueva Ecija in the north and Sorsogon and Batangas in the southern part of Luzon.
Duterte is also eyeing for railway development in the entire Mindanao. He said that he has been studying the process of installation since it needs a partnership with other country to materialize the system because the government has no enough funds for it. Duterte added that the process would go through PPP (Public-Private-Partnership) program.
Even before election, Duterte has been dreaming of a partnership with China who is capable enough to create one. Duterte also stressed that the project should not influence or compromise that stand of the Philippine government in the disputed islands in the west Philippine sea.
“Just because you’re building me the railway does not mean to say that I am abandoning the Scarborough Shoal,” Duterte said.
In his previous interview with reporters, Duterte was quoted by the Inquirer, he said that “I will just ask you to build a rail, just like what you did for Africa,” referring to the Chinese-funded high-speed railway line project of the Kenya Railways Corporation, which has cut travel time from Nairobi to Mombasa from 13 to three hours.
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