ADB loans $ 123 million for EDSA elevated walkways

MANILA – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan of $ 123 million or about P5.9 billion to the Philippines for EDSA’s elevated walkway project, the multilateral lender said on Monday.

ADB said the loan will help the government “build safe, spacious, well-lit and disaster-resistant walkways for pedestrians along Manila’s most congested thoroughfare.”

“The EDSA Greenways Project will help the government to build 5 kilometers of covered walkways, which will be connected to the public transport stations along EDSA, that is, the Balintawak, Cubao, Guadalupe and Taft stations,” said ADB .

The corridors will be 5 meters wide and equipped with elevators and monitoring systems to make them easily accessible to pedestrians, including the elderly, pregnant women, young children and people with disabilities.

“The EDSA Greenways Project is an integral part of the government’s transportation strategy to make Metro Manila a better place to live, work and visit,” said ADB Director of Communications and Transportation for Southeast Asia, Hiroaki Yamaguchi .