There will be 150 million of us by the year 2050 – it’s flying toward us at the speed of a jet plane. By that time, warns Jun Palafox, “we will need 100 new cities, otherwise existing cities and emerging metropolitan areas will be congested worse than Metro Manila today.”
A former airport manager said their hands are tied by “rules and regulations.” As he put it, “I could not buy a light bulb that was three pesos more expensive, although it was more durable and gave me value for money, because the law was the law,” i.e., the lowest bidder gets the contract. But Shanghai is such a big city, what if we “benchmark Philippines against Singapore,” a tiny garden state for a more down-to-earth comparison?
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