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Korean firm bags Cebu BRT

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A Korean company has bagged a contract from the Transportation Department to design and supervise the construction of the P9-billion bus rapid transit project in Cebu province.

Transportation Department spokesman Michael Arthur Sagcal said the agency awarded the detailed engineering, design and construction supervision contract for the 23-kilometer Cebu BRT system to Kunhwa Engineering & Consulting Co. Ltd.

Kunhwa’s field of specialization includes road and transportation engineering, water supply and wastewater disposal river engineering and water resource development, dam and hydropower development, harbor and coastal engineering, urban and regional planning as well as other related works.

It also provides complete services while supervising construction, ranging form preliminary investigations and feasibility studies to planning and detailed designs.

Sagcal said the design and consultancy contract would be funded by a $2.9-million loan from the World Bank, while P67.8 million would be the counterpart fund from the Philippine government.

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The Philippines earlier secured a $114-million loan from World Bank to finance the construction of the Cebu BRT.

The project would entail building segregated BRT bus-ways from Bulacao to Ayala, with a link to the South Road Property, a feeder service between Ayala and Talamban with signal priority, 33 stations to service 330,000 people per day in 2015, 176 buses, an area stop light control for the entire Cebu City and a central transport control room.

Once completed, the project can field 433,000 individual trips per day, resulting in savings of 25 minutes of travel time and P7.50 in fares.

Compared with a rail service, a BRT would cost 5 to 10 percent lower and would take less time of 2 years to construct.

The Transportation Department will implement the project, which is scheduled to start commercial operations by 2018.

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