[sustran] Re: Determining MRT fares?

Roberto Verzola rverzola at phil.gn.apc.org
Fri Dec 3 12:50:39 JST 1999


 >Skytrain, there has been debate about what fare to charge. It's a BOT 
 >project so the builder wanted to charge Php 44 (Php 40.8/US$1) from 
 >Quezon City where it starts to Makati where it currently ends. It is 
 >not clear whether fares would be distance based although there is 
 >talk to that effect. Anyway, the operator said that they needed to 
 >charge this much in order to get economic returns although malls are 
 >being built at the major stops from which the operator will earn 
 >income (in fact, at its inception, the malls were included precisely 
 >so that fares could be kept low and the operator could recoup its 
 >investment from their operation rather than the fare). The current 

It is a sad reflection of the kind of planning done with the Metro
Manila rail transit that the fare is being debated on when the project
is about to be finished, rather than before it was to be approved...

Roberto Verzola



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