Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo
A few years back while attending the Leaders in Development programme of Harvard Kennedy School, our professor asked us to write one thing which we aspired to achieve in the next ten years. We wrote it in a piece of paper and placed it beside our name card. I thought for a moment and scribbled “Philippines achieving its full potential.”
In the 1960’s the Philippines had the second highest per capita income in Asia, behind only Japan. A decade later, South Korea had passed our country in per capita income terms largely due to the successful implementation of its Economic Development Plan where the government and public enterprises accounted for close to 40% of the total domestic investment in the period between 1963 and 1979 for the construction of infrastructure projects like highways, port facilities, and bridges.
President Duterte inaugurated on Thursday the 18-kilometer Metro Manila Skyway Stage 3 project – an elevated expressway that connects the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) from Buendia in Makati City to the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) in Balintawak, Quezon City.
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte leads the unveiling of the marker of the Metro Manila Skyway Stage 3 (MMSS-3) Project during the inauguration ceremony at the Del Monte Toll Plaza in Quezon City on January 14, 2021.
(ALFRED FRIAS/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar, together with DPWH Undersecretary Cathy Cabral, DPWH spokesperson Anna Mae Lamentillo, Presidential spokesman Harry Roque, Budget and Management Secretary Wendel Avisado, and Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade, walks along the main line of the Metro Manila Skyway Stage 3 Project.
QUEZON CITY, Jan. 14 President Rodrigo Roa Duterte inaugurated Thursday, January 14, 2021 the 18-kilometer Metro Manila Skyway Stage 3 from Buendia, Makati City to Balintawak, Quezon City that connected the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) and North Luzon Expressway (NLEX).
Together with the President at the opening ceremony of the elevated expressway built under the Build, Build, Build Program are Department of Public Works and Secretary Mark A. Villar and San Miguel Corporation (SMC) President Ramon S. Ang.
The ceremony was also attended by Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” T. Go, House Speaker Lord Allan Q. Velasco, Executive Secretary Salvador C. Medialdea, and Transportation Secretary Arthur P. Tugade.
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Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo
In 2016 when we started Build, Build, Build, critics said that the EDSA Decongestion Program is mathematically impossible, that it cannot be done, that President Rodrigo Duterte was over promising, and that Google Maps does not support such assertion. They fa