MPIC sets precondition to buy Ayala stake in LRT 1

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Manuel Pangilinan-led MPIC would consider increasing its stake in the 20.7-kilometer LRT 1 in Metro Manila should the incoming administration act on a growing pile of fare application increases going back to 2015. | miguelrcamusINQ /PDI

This was to help them recover huge investments from improving the LRT 1 and the ongoing extension of the elevated railway by 11.7 km to Niog, Bacoor in Cavite, which would be fully operational by 2027.

“Depending again on the election outcome, we would have to make a judgment whether there is a decent chance that the next president will be more open to or sympathetic to a tariff adjustment for LRT 1 in some shape or form,” he added. “We told the board we should consider it and hold our thinking in abeyance for the next few months or weeks depending on how we assess the political landscape moving forward,” Pangilinan said.Built near the end of the regime of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1984, the LRT 1 is considered the oldest LRT system in Southeast Asia.LRMC president and CEO Juan Alfonso said during the briefing the company had submitted three tariff adjustment applications for a combined 36-percent fare increase.

 

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