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Construction works for the $ 2.5 billion Philippine National Railways (PNR) Clark Phase 2 project will begin before the end of 2020, according to the Department of Transportation (DoTr).
In a briefing on Thursday, Timothy John Batan, transportation secretary for the railroads, said that “we will begin construction in November [or] December of this year with the mobilization of our three contractors, with partial operation scheduled in 2023 and full completion scheduled [in] 2025 “.
The project “will go at full speed to help [the country’s] economic recovery, “he added.
Batan’s remarks come after his department signed three civil works contracts for the project worth $ 1.7 billion.
Megawide Construction Corp. and its South Korean partners Hyundai Engineering and Construction Co. Ltd. And Dong-ah Geological Engineering Co. Ltd. They won the P28 billion contract N-01 to build a 17-kilometer viaduct that includes elevated station buildings in Calumpit. city of the province of Bulacan and municipality of Apalit of the province of Pampanga.
Acciona Construction Philippines and Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd. won the P33.7 billion N-02 contract package for a 16-kilometer viaduct and station building in the cities of Minalin and Sto. Tomás and the city of San Fernando in Pampanga.
Italian-Thai Development Public Co. Ltd. won the contract to build a 12-kilometer viaduct and station building in Pampanga as part of the Malolos-Clark extension of the north-south commuter rail system.
The 53-kilometer Clark Phase 2 PNR, which would go from Malolos in Bulacan to Clark in Pampanga, is part of the government’s 777.5 billion-peso North-South Cercanías Railroad Extension Project.
The DoTr has said the project would be operational by 2022, but the Asian Development Bank said in a statement on Thursday that the railway could begin receiving passengers from 2025.
It is expected to serve 340,000 passengers daily.
Upon completion, travel time from Gil Puyat Ave. in Makati City to Clark International Airport would be reduced to 55 minutes compared to two hours today in a private vehicle across the highway.
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