DoTr secures funding for feasibility of cable cars from France

July 23, 2018

The Department of Transportation (DoTr) said it secured a funding from France for a feasibility study on installing cable cars in Metro Manila.

“There’s a grant from French Embassy. We are just waiting the approval from the Office of the President. They will be conducting a feasibility study to install cable cars in Metro Manila,” Garry de Guzman, Transportation Undersecretary for Administration and Finance said Monday.

De Guzman said the French government granted P25 million to the Philippines for feasibility study on cable cars.

“If successful, we will also conduct a feasibility study in Baguio or Boracay,” he added.

The installation of cable cars in Metro Manila aims to decongest traffic in Metro Manila.

According to the Japan International for Cooperation Agency (JICA), the updated daily cost of traffic in Metro Manila was P3.5 billion in 2017, higher than the estimated P2.4 billion based on the previous transport roadmap.

JICA said with the estimated 12.8 million population of Metro Manila as of 2015, the cost would amount to P273 for each resident a day, up from P187.5 for each resident in the previous roadmap.

Without intervention, the daily cost of traffic would increase to P5.4 billion in the coming years.

JICA said Metro Manila’s traffic situation was getting worse as traffic demand reached 13.4 million trips a day. DMS