It's true that railway systems are being worked nationwide but haven't heard of an underground one. This will be a PPP so it will depend mostly on the private financier. Your concern on rails being stolen is true but we'll see if our people are now responsible. Private bus companies are charging exorbitant rates for cargoes so a railway system is needed. Yes many deposits are buried below the old rails and will be dug when the new railway system will be installed. Anybody here who has maps of deposits along the old railway system in Panay? We can work together to retrieve them before work begins. Davao people will not intervene here, they have their hands full
Of all the years I have not seen a GOOD nation wide trucking freight company - service. I am not that rich but say Red Ball Freight Philippines. The problem is getting the shipping on the ferrys which themselves are flakey and not regular in service.
A " Bullet Train " would travel at least 180km per hour so it can not be in a fashion that can be approached by people walking or driving around. Park a truck load of sugar cain on the " track " and it would derail the whole thing and everyone on board would get killed. Imagine having open tracks like that on Mindanao. It would be a death trap used by rebels and such. That is why it has to be either up in the air on pilons or under ground in a tube. I was just told today the contracts and funders are in Metro Manila this week, will see how far it will progress. I imagine the biggest thing to negotiate is how much is kicked under the table to the new government. The number given to me yesterday is a 50/50 split where half of the funding is kicked back through the banks. And Marcos only got 10% that is why his nick name was " Mr. 10% ".
Voyager I will PM U about what you said on Panay.
There was a lot next to the old Iloilo Airport, it was moved about by train. I remember in 1998 1999 looking at the old railroad bed there. The rails were all gone but you could see where they had been through the buildings and the old "ballast" was still there. That area was taken over by the Chinese and they recovered it with the new massive building in and around the old airport. So that is why the Chinese sunk Billions of Dollars into that project, the SM city and all of that. They dug up the bunkers. When a railroad is used to move gold, you know it runs over 1,000 metric tons. In 1999 someone wanted me to dig under a building in old Iloilo City, the building owner was a bit of a dick head and I did not want to mess with it. Well the Japs came and financially convinced him to let them joint venture under his building. The results was 100 metric tons. But it was like over 30 meters down and that ment it was a water problem. I looked at that building last year, parked in front of it with my friends from Iloilo and we just laughed, more at our selves than anything.
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