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SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS BILLS AND INDEX SERVICE

First Regular Session

273

HOUSE BILL NO.

introduced by: REP. RAUL V. DEL MAR

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The attached bill seeks the construction and operation of an appropriate
Modern Mass Transport System in the City of Cebu and Metro Cebu.

Current economic activities in the City of Cebu and Metro Cebu put in sharp
focus the development potentials of the area towards making it a prime growth
center and more. This kind of potential and this kind of development, however, give
rise to some areas of concern. With the Cebu City and Metro Cebu's projected
growth, even the construction and improvement of basic infrastructures: roads,
bridges and flood control facilities in selected areas to alleviate the serious traffic
situation now obtaining will not be adequate in the near future, given the increasing
and widening areas of traffic.

The common perception is that the traffic situation in the City of Cebu and
Metro Cebu, considering the economic growth trends, population explosion rates and
migration factors, will reach a level where a modern mass transit system must be put
in place. It is in this context that an appropriate modern Mass Transport System is
proposed, a mass transport scheme that realistically looks into the “not too instant
future’, anticipating the requirements of an ever expanding metropolis.



It may be stressed that this bill passed on third and final reading in the House
of Representatives during the Thirteenth Congress but was not approved by the
Senate, for lack of time upon congressional adjournment.

Approval of the bill is therefore earnestly recommended.

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( RAULIV, DEL MA


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

273

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduce by: REP. RAUL V. DEL MAR

AN ACT
PROVIDING FOR FOR A LIGHT RAIL TRANSPORT (LRT) OR MONORAIL OR BUS RAPID
TRANSIT (BRT) OR ANY OTHER APPROPRIATE MODERN MASS TRANSPORT SYSTEM
IN CEBU CITY AND METRO CEBU

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. There shall be a Light Rail Transport (LRT) or monorail or Bus Rapid
Transit (BRT) or any other appropriate modern mass transport system in the City of
Cebu and Metro Cebu to be provided by the Department of Transportation and
Communications (DOTC).

SEC. 2, The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) shall
endorse a Light Rail Transport (LRT) or monorail or Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) or any
appropriate modern mass transport system in the City of Cebu and Metro Cebu for
funding either through a government guarantee Official Development Assistance
(ODA) or private sector participation under a Build-Operate Transfer (BOT) scheme as

a multi-year project.


The DOTC shall be responsible for the implementation and operationalization
of the transport system, including the feasibility and detailed engineering studies and
acquisition of site.

SEC, 3. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in at
least two (2) national newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,