Lawmaker optimistic on Mindanao railway project

ZAMBOANGA-First District Representative Celso Lobregat is optimistic that the Mindanao Railway Project (MRP) will be realized under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.

Lobregat said he jubilantly reacted when Duterte has bannered the MRP as one of his administration’s priorities during the first State of the Nation Address (Sona), Monday, July 25.

Duterte said his administration will pursue rail projects in Metro Manila and the major key-points in the country including Mindanao.

“I assure you because it’s going to materialize: Rail projects, the Davao Transit System, the Cebu Transit System, the North and South Luzon Railways and the Panay Railways project,” Duterte said in his Sona.

Duterte added that road development projects “shall complement with our thrust to provide modern agriculture, infrastructural by expanding and improving the construction and rehabilitation of roads and the irrigation and establishing modern harvest and post-harvest facilities to minimize losses.” (Bong Garcia/Sunnex)