Japan’s biggest transport firms — Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Tokyo Metro, and more — are lining up to run the ₱874B North-South Commuter Railway. Will this finally give Filipinos a humane, reliable, and Japan-level train system?
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20 PostsMJ’s life is a parade of dualities and ironies — an introvert who loves the outside, a paranoid risk-taker, an eccentric dude with a perfect wife, and a writer with the most terrible handwriting. He loves driving his good ol’ sedan, arms out with his windows down, zigzagging across the mountains of Aurora and Rizal while listening to the tune of John Mayer’s Rosie. A father of two (a daughter in her terrible twos and a corgi); There is nothing more important to him than family. His dream travel — running and rolling on the Swiss Alps like Heidi.
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