The Philippines Department of Transportation (DOTr) has signed a memorandum of agreement with SM Prime Holdings Inc., San Miguel Corp. and Light Rail Manila Corp., operator of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) Line 1, on a common railway station that will link three major elevated train lines traveling through Quezon City.
The agreement was signed after the common station’s design was finalized. Under that plan, a single railway station would serve as a transfer point between the LRT-1, Metro Rail Transit (MRT) Line 3 and the MRT-7, which was expected to be completed by 2020.
The signing follows a broad agreement in September last year for a common station to be built. The September 2016 memorandum of understanding, which was short on details, followed a multiyear legal quarrel between the Department of Transportation and the SM group, which sued for breach of contract.
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