The Department of Transportation (DOTr) said Wednesday the Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP) is on track to become fully operational by end of 2029.
The agency said the MMSP’s physical progress is now at 14 percent. The MMSP is the first underground railway system in the Philippines and a flagship project under the “Build, Better, More” program of the Marcos Administration.
Spanning 33 kilometers across eight local governments units in Metro Manila and passing through three central business districts, the MMSP is an expansive system that will be interconnected with LRT-1, MRT-3 and MRT-7 at the Common Station, LRT-2 at Anonas Station and a physical run through into the NSCR-EX at FTI and Bicutan Stations.
Passengers can board a subway train at North Avenue Station, and get off almost 100 kilometers away at the North-South Commuter Railway Extension Project’s Calamba Station without changing trains.
The subway also features a spur line to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport at T3 Station which makes the gateway reachable from Quezon City in as fast as 40 minutes, with eight-car train sets carrying up to 2,200 passengers per train, running as fast as 80 kilometers per hour, and with trains arriving at stations every five minutes.
The P488.5-billion project is also expected to serve around 370,000 passengers a day in its first year of full operations, with capacity to serve up to 1 million passengers a day in later years.
The project aims to reduce travel time between Clark, Pampanga and Calamba, Laguna to just two hours and service over 800,000 passengers daily once operational.