I never thought this would happen in my lifetime, and maybe it still will:

The government announced Thursday its plan to construct a road and railway system around the 220-kilometer Laguna Lake through a $2.4-billion build-operate-transfer (BOT) project.

The main objective of the project is to provide adequate accessibility to the towns and cities surrounding Laguna Lake to Metro Manila’s principal road arteries and railway systems to transform all the provinces in the Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon and Aurora area into progressive industrial centers.

The first option that the proponents are now looking at is the “shoreline embankment and causeway road” composed of approximately 150 kms of shoreline embankment road, 30 kms of causeway structure, 25 kms of land-based on-grade road and railway.

I would love to take a train from Los Banos and get off somewhere in Makati. No tolls, no traffic. Now if only they make sure that there's ample parking.

Read here.

Tags: Laguna, Philippines, trains, Laguna+Lake, Metro+Manila