Here's my latest Rappler piece, co-written with @znsuzara. Build 3x was supposed to bring about a "golden age of infrastructure." But to make up for their lack of progress Duterte and his men took credit for projects started in previous administrations. 😤
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Here are 10 examples:
1) Skyway Stage 3 (a public-private partnership or PPP project of the Aquino admin, launched in 2014)
2) LRT-2 East Extension Project (approved by the NEDA board way back in 2012)
3) NLEX-SLEX Connector (greenlit by the Aquino administration in January 2013)
4) C5 South Link Expressway (approved by the Aquino admin, broke ground in May 2016)
5) MRT-7 (initiated way back in 2004, broke ground in April 2016)
6) PITX (another PPP project of the Aquino admin, awarded in 2015)
7) Mactan Cebu International Airport (New Passenger Terminal Building) (another PPP project of the Aquino admin, broke ground in July 2015)
8) New Bohol Panglao Airport (approved as early as 2003, got financing from JICA in 2013)
9) LRT-1 Cavite Extension Project (decades in the making, deal finally awarded in September 2015)
10) Cavite-Laguna Expressway (CALAX) (yet another PPP project of the Aquino admin, awarded in 2015)
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