MANILA, Philippines — The Cebu Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system should push through despite the call of Senator Nancy Binay to reconsider the project, Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade said Monday. In a Senate hearing on Friday on the proposed budget of the DOTr for 2021, Binay said the DOTr already spent P7 billion for the long-delayed Cebu BRT system but not a single excavation has been done since the project started in 2015. She noted that the project, funded by a P16.5-billion loan from the World Bank, was supposed to be operational by June 2021. “I think we should seriously rethink this project because this is funded by a foreign loan and nothing has happened five years after it supposedly started,” Binay said. Tugade, however, said that the P16 billion has yet to be released by the World Bank for the project.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 05, 2020 02:15 UTC