The Transportation Department is now on its final stages of feasibility studies for the proposed Metro Manila Cable Car system.
The government said that France gave a Php27 million grant to launch this initiative.
The French government is looking at an urban area for pilot implementation of the project.
“It’s on the third phase already. Anyway it would be concluded within the year,” Transportation Undersecretary Garry De Guzman told CNN Philippines.
The government sees the cable car system as a possible solution to help ease the current traffic problem in Metro Manila.
Transportation officials also to CNN Philippines that they are studying to build it from the LRT 2 Santolan station in Marikina City to the Ortigas business district in Pasig.
But can cable cars work in a typhoon and earthquake-prone country like the Philippines?
A cable car designer Jim Fletcher explained that “cable cars can be built for whatever survival wind is prevalent in the area where they are being constructed. In a typhoon area, we would design the structures and provide mechanisms to tie the cable down when a typhoon came along.”
