Old news: The government’s comprehensive and integrated mass transport and  infrastructure program is envisioned “to decongest the National Capital Region and to stimulate economic growth in the countryside especially in Bicol and Mindanao.” Progress has been slow.

Good news! On July 14, 2009 the government announced that:

Phase 1 of the rehabilitated Philippine National Railways was inaugurated. A commuter train, with the President and the VP on board, chugged along the stretch from Tutuban in Manila to Buendia in Makati City.

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