{"id":112399,"date":"2017-08-16T06:18:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T10:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=112399"},"modified":"2017-08-16T06:18:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T10:18:19","slug":"house-panel-oks-p6-58b-mindanao-railway-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/16\/house-panel-oks-p6-58b-mindanao-railway-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"House panel OKs P6.58B Mindanao Railway budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_112408\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112408\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Mindanao-Railway-Project.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112408\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Mindanao-Railway-Project.jpg\" alt=\"The entire Mindanao Railway System will run for a total of 1,530-km, connecting Davao provinces, Iligan, Cagayan de Oro, General Santos, and Zamboanga. (PNA photo)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Mindanao-Railway-Project.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Mindanao-Railway-Project-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Mindanao-Railway-Project-768x573.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entire Mindanao Railway System will run for a total of 1,530-km, connecting Davao provinces, Iligan, Cagayan de Oro, General Santos, and Zamboanga. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The construction of the Mindanao Railway project is finally taking off after a House panel approved a PHP6.58 billion budget to fund its initial phase, the Department of Transportation said.<\/p>\n<p>DOTr Assistant Secretary Timothy John Batan said the railway project will spur growth and development in Mindanao.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The DOTr sincerely appreciates Congress&#8217;s strong support for the Mindanao Railway Project, which will deliver long-awaited and much-needed investment for the development of Mindanao,\u201d Batan said in a text message to the\u00a0<em>Philippine News Agency (PNA)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The House Appropriations Committee allocated PHP6.58 billion to fund the project&#8217;s first segment which will traverse from the cities of Tagum, Davao and Digos.<\/p>\n<p>Construction is expected to start by the third quarter of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The appropriation comes more than a month after the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) approved Phase 1 of MRP. Estimated project cost is PHP35.26 billion via general appropriations.<\/p>\n<p>During the deliberations, Surigao del Sur Rep. Johnny Pimentel, a member of the committee, said the MRP \u201cis an enormous project\u201d that should be implemented soon.<\/p>\n<p>Phase 1 is a 105 kilometer (km) rail line that is expected to reduce travel time from Davao del Norte to Davao by more than an hour from the current three and a half hours.<\/p>\n<p>It will have eight stations: Tagum, Carmen, Panabo, Mudiang, Davao Terminal, Toril, Sta. Cruz, and Digos with the construction expected to begin by third quarter of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Once completed, the entire Mindanao Railway System will run for a total of 1,530-km, connecting Davao provinces, Iligan, Cagayan de Oro, General Santos, and Zamboanga. It is targeted for completion by 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The construction of the Mindanao Railway project is finally taking off after a House panel approved a PHP6.58 billion &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":112408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95,5],"tags":[21350],"class_list":["post-112399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","category-technology","tag-mindanao-railway-budget","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}