Mandaluyong市、独自の地下鉄を検討

Mandaluyong wants own subway - Manila Standard Today

ざっくり言うと

• 日本の専門家が全自動無人運転車両計画（Santa Mesa～Taytay City）を市長にプレゼン（リンク先に地図あり）
• 一車両当たり90～100人ｘ６車両を時速80kmで運転可能
• 2015年2月最終レポート提出→2016年承認が降りる→2023年完成、との日本側予想

Mandaluyong wants own subway

By MST Business | Dec. 20, 2014 at 10:10pm

Mandaluyong City wants its own subway as a part of the proposed $1-billion East Metro Manila Automated People Mover system being drawn up by a team of Japanese experts.

Mayor Benhur Abalos, in a recent meeting with a study group of transit technology experts commissioned by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, advised the foreign experts to do a reconfiguration study for an underground segment of the proposed APM from Santa Mesa, Manila to Taytay City in Rizal province.

Abalos said designing a subway for the Mandaluyong segment would save millions, if not billions of pesos worth of prime properties in the city, compared to elevated platforms.

He said the reconfiguration could easily be done with “value engineering”, which Japanese engineers were known for.

An APM system is a fully automated, grade-separated mass transit system.  It is similar to the automated guideway transit technology that the Department of Science and Technology is trying to develop with the construction of a protoype AGT line inside the UP Diliman campus in Quezon City and the current new prototype it is building inside the DOST central office complex in Bicutan, Taguig City.

It is different from the “monorail” system, which is being proposed by the Bases Conversion and Development Authority as a public rail line in Fort Bonifacio to connect the emerging central business districts with the Ninoy Aquino International Airport terminals.

Compared to the MRT and Light Rail Transit coaches, APM coaches are smaller, more flexible, can be coupled up to six cars, have a higher passenger capacity and can accommodate up to 90 to 100 passengers per car. Vehicles can run up to a speed of 80 kilometers per hour.

The “Study on Medium Capacity Transit System Project in Metro Manila” conducted by Tostems Inc., Oriental Consultants Global Co. Ltd., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and the Japan Planning Transport Association was presented to Abalos and other city officials in a meeting held at the Mandaluyong City Hall in early December.

The original proposal was to build an APM system from Mandaluyong City Hall and running through the inner-city’s suburban areas straight through to the Ortigas central business district.

Japanese experts, however, expanded the proposed APM system master plan into a 19.6-kilometer mass transit system that will extend from Taytay in Rizal province east of Metro Manila to Santa Mesa in Manila, running through the Ortigas CBD.

Japanese experts offered three options from which the Mandaluyong City government may choose. The first option is a line from Santa Mesa through Boni Avenue to Ortigas CBD to Taytay City.

The second option is a line from V. Mapa to Shaw Boulevard, Ortigas CBD up to Taytay while the third option is from Gilmore Street to Ortigas Avenue to Taytay City.

Option 1 will have the longest span among the three options at an estimated 19.6-kilometer length, and will have an elevated section of 17.1 kilometers and an underground section of 2.5 kilometers.

This option is expected to be the most advantageous for Mandaluyong residents as it will pass through the city’s residential areas.

Option 2 will be an 18.4-kilometer line with an elevated section of 16.2 kilometers and an underground section of 2.2 kilometers. The advantage of this line is it will connect to the EDSA-bound Metro Rail Transit at Shaw Boulevard and with the Light Rail Transit Line 2 at V. Mapa station.

Option 3 will be the shortest, as well as the cheapest, running mostly along the entire stretch of Ortigas Avenue and Ortigas Avenue Extension. It is envisioned to have a span of  14.8 kilometers, and will be fully elevated.

The project, the Japanese experts said, will reduce traffic congestion in Metro Manila especially in the section from Taytay City up to the Ortigas central business district.

It is also expected to boost growth in the eastern side of Metro Manila with the installation of a track-guided transport system and contribute to the revitalization of economic activities in Metro Manila.

The project is projected to cost $1.043 billion, including the actual construction cost of the guide way track, electro-mechanical systems and rolling stock/APM coaches, including the additional rolling stock that will be purchased in 2029.

The study group is set to submit a final feasibility report to Mandaluyong City by February 2015.

Japanese technical experts expect the approval process to be completed by 2016 and the project to be finished by 2023.

Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry extended a grant of $1.5 million for the conduct of the comprehensive and highly-technical feasibility study.

Once the proposal is approved by the involved local government units led by Mandaluyong City, and natonal government agencies such as the National Economic and Development Authority, the Japanese government through the Japan International Cooperation Agency, may extend an overseas development assistance loan for the project.

The city government of Mandaluyong secured in June this year a crucial clearance from the Transportation Department to continue coordination with the Japanese government for the conduct of further requisite technical and feasibility studies for the proposed APM project.

Transportation Undersecretary for legal Jose Perpetuo Lotilla, in a letter to Abalos on June 30, informed the city government of its endorsement for the project. 

Manila Standard Today
2014/12/20

補足

• Bonifacioを通る鉄道の予想路線図（ユーザー予想）
• マニラ縦断地下鉄の検討（国家経済開発庁管轄 PPPセンター）
• 三菱重工｜APM（Automated People Mover:全自動無人運転車両）

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