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E-mailA new connection between the Metro Rail Transit (MRT Line 3) to the Light Rail Transit 1 (LRT Line 1) is set to draw more commuters to trains after it becomes open to the public in less than a month’s time.
A new route connecting the MRT station on North Avenue in Quezon City to the LRT 1 station in Monumento, Caloocan, will be open starting March 15. A commuter will be able to go through Quezon City through Caloocan and Manila to Pasay City and back, without having to leave the train line.
The project, called "Closing the Loop," was spearheaded by the national government and took 14 months of continuous construction and over P6.3 billion to complete.
“[The new route will] bind the metropolis like never before so that people can travel faster, cheaper and safer from any part of the metropolis to another,” President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said during the flag-raising ceremony at the People Power Monument in celebration of the EDSA 1 anniversary.
After the ceremony, she and Vice President Noli de Castro took a train down the new route for the inaugural ride.
“This is to decongest Metro Manila. By making it convenient because it’s O-shaped, you don’t have to go down and take another transport. You can go anywhere and get off anywhere, and you just take the transport for your final destination,” said Arroyo.
Once the new route becomes operational, an average of 100,000 more commuters will add to the 1.2 million who take the metro’s three train lines every day, said Transportation and Communications Secretary Leandro Mendoza.
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