Conglomerate San Miguel Corp. said it plans to develop a bus rapid transport system along Metro Manila Skyway, which will run from Susana Heights in Muntinlupa City to Balintawak in Quezon City.
“Our dream is to put up a bus rapid transit in Skyway. We will put a landing station everywhere. So, imagine from Susana Heights going to Balintawak, you can ride a bus just like a train,” San Miguel president and chief operating officer Ramon Ang said.
Ang said the plan was to use electric buses for the proposed BRT system. “We will design and construct it, then we will invite bus operators to join me and operate,” Ang said.
He did not provide other details for the project.
The Duterte administration earlier announced that it was looking at building BRT systems in Metro Manila, Davao and Cebu to resolve traffic congestion in these areas.
San Miguel’s infrastructure unit, San Miguel Holdings Corp., in partnership with state-run Philippine National Construction Corp., operates Metro Manila Skyway.
SMHC is constructing the P26.7-billion Skyway Stage 3 Project”•a 14.8-kilometer, six-lane elevated expressway that will connect the end of Skyway near Buendia in Makati City to Balintawak.
SMHC and PNCC signed an agreement last week to jointly undertake the expansion of toll roads under their existing joint venture worth P554 billion.
The expanded road network will include extension of the Metro Manila Skyway Stage 3 project and the Metro Manila Expressway, or C6/Skyway Stage 4.
Under the agreement, SMHC and PNCC will build San Pedro-C6 Laguna Lake Road, extending the South Luzon Expressway from San Pedro, Laguna and passing along the shores of Laguna Lake and ending at C6 in Taguig.
Other projects are Tanauan-Tagaytay Expressway or Sky 8; TR5 which will extend SLEx from the end of TR4 in Pagbilao, Quezon to Matnog, Sorsogon; Sky 7, which will connect Taguig to Commonwealth Ave. in Quezon City; Buendia Interchange and Ramp Extension to Macapagal Boulevard; and Sky 9 or the Pasig River Alignment which will include ramps to Buendia, Pioneer and Bonifacio Global City.
San Miguel and PNCC were also studying a P700-billion expressway that will connect Quezon, Bicol provinces and Northern Samar.
San Miguel posted a net income of P52 billion in 2016, up 80 percent from 2015. Revenues rose 2 percent to P685 billion last year.
