The Philippines is planning a $14 billion ‘pollution-free’ city that will be larger than Manhattan
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| A rendering of New Clark, a planned city for the Philippines. BCDA Group |
Manila, the hyper-dense capital of The Philippines, is known for its traffic jams. In a 2016 survey, navigation company Waze ranked Manila as having the “worst traffic on Earth.” The city’s reliance on cars also exacerbates its growing air-pollution problem.
As a possible solution to Manila’s smog and gridlock, the country plans to build an entirely new, more sustainable city called New Clark.
Plans for the $14 billion development — which will measure larger than Manhattan — call for drones, driverless cars, technologies that will reduce buildings’ water and energy usage, a giant sports complex, and plenty of green space.
Take a look below.
Over the next three decades, the Philippines aims to build out New Clark about 75 miles outside Manila.
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Source: CNBC |
According to the development’s plan, the city will eventually stretch 36 square miles — a land area larger than Manhattan — and house up to 2 million people.
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Source: The Inquirer |
New Clark will be divided into five districts, each with a specific function: government, business, education, agriculture, and recreation.
BCDA Group
While New Clark’s exact design is not fleshed out, developers say the urban plan will prioritize environmental sustainability and climate resilience.
BCDA Group
With a minimum elevation of 184 feet above sea level, the city will likely not see much flooding.
BCDA Group
To reduce carbon emissions, two-thirds of New Clark will be reserved for farmland, parks, and other green space.
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Source: Reuters |
The buildings will incorporate technologies that reduce energy and water usage.
BCDA Group
Driverless cars, running on electric energy rather than CO2-emitting gas, will roam the streets.
BCDA Group
Additionally, the city will feature a giant sports stadium and an agro-industrial park.
BCDA Group
New Clark’s developers, BCDA Group and Surbana Jurong, plan to start construction in 2022.
BCDA Group
The new city will serve as a “twin city” to Manila, alleviating congestion in the capital, Surbana Jurong CEO Heang Fine Wong told CNBC.
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People shop ahead of New Year celebrations at a street market in Divisoria, Manila, Philippines, December 29, 2017. Source: CNBC |
“You’ll gradually see Manila becoming a different type of city … and in New Clark City, you’ll see new technology companies coming through,” he said.
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A view of a busy street at the Mall of Asia Arena on November 27, 2014 in Manila, Philippines. Getty Images/Clive Brunskill. |
The vision for New Clark certainly sounds utopian.
BCDA Group
But the ambitious plan faces several challenges, including persuading Manila residents to move there. A new railway line could reduce the travel time between the two cities in half.
BCDA Group
The Philippines also struggles with economic development, and building an eco-city from scratch will come with a hefty price tag. According to Wong, public-private partnerships will help finance the project.
BCDA Group
In recent years, countries around the world — especially China — have unveiled plans for pie-in-the-sky urban developments. A number of realized projects have failed to attract a significant population, and turned into ghost cities.
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Construction sites and vacant streets in Xiangluo Bay, a new biggest central business district under construction in Tianjin. Zhang Peng/LightRocket via Getty Images |
Yujiapu and Xiangluo Bay, a metro area that was supposed to be known as “China’s Manhattan,” is half-built and largely empty.
Building cities from scratch rarely solve existing problems, but designing them can help urban planners imagine what’s possible.
BCDA Group
source: businessinsider.com
The Philippines is planning a $14 billion ‘pollution-free’ city that will be larger than Manhattan
Posted 6 years ago
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| A rendering of New Clark, a planned city for the Philippines. BCDA Group |
Manila, the hyper-dense capital of The Philippines, is known for its traffic jams. In a 2016 survey, navigation company Waze ranked Manila as having the “worst traffic on Earth.” The city’s reliance on cars also exacerbates its growing air-pollution problem.
As a possible solution to Manila’s smog and gridlock, the country plans to build an entirely new, more sustainable city called New Clark.
Plans for the $14 billion development — which will measure larger than Manhattan — call for drones, driverless cars, technologies that will reduce buildings’ water and energy usage, a giant sports complex, and plenty of green space.
Take a look below.
Over the next three decades, the Philippines aims to build out New Clark about 75 miles outside Manila.
|
|
Source: CNBC |
According to the development’s plan, the city will eventually stretch 36 square miles — a land area larger than Manhattan — and house up to 2 million people.
|
|
Source: The Inquirer |
New Clark will be divided into five districts, each with a specific function: government, business, education, agriculture, and recreation.
BCDA Group
While New Clark’s exact design is not fleshed out, developers say the urban plan will prioritize environmental sustainability and climate resilience.
BCDA Group
With a minimum elevation of 184 feet above sea level, the city will likely not see much flooding.
BCDA Group
To reduce carbon emissions, two-thirds of New Clark will be reserved for farmland, parks, and other green space.
|
|
Source: Reuters |
The buildings will incorporate technologies that reduce energy and water usage.
BCDA Group
Driverless cars, running on electric energy rather than CO2-emitting gas, will roam the streets.
BCDA Group
Additionally, the city will feature a giant sports stadium and an agro-industrial park.
BCDA Group
New Clark’s developers, BCDA Group and Surbana Jurong, plan to start construction in 2022.
BCDA Group
The new city will serve as a “twin city” to Manila, alleviating congestion in the capital, Surbana Jurong CEO Heang Fine Wong told CNBC.
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People shop ahead of New Year celebrations at a street market in Divisoria, Manila, Philippines, December 29, 2017. Source: CNBC |
“You’ll gradually see Manila becoming a different type of city … and in New Clark City, you’ll see new technology companies coming through,” he said.
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A view of a busy street at the Mall of Asia Arena on November 27, 2014 in Manila, Philippines. Getty Images/Clive Brunskill. |
The vision for New Clark certainly sounds utopian.
BCDA Group
But the ambitious plan faces several challenges, including persuading Manila residents to move there. A new railway line could reduce the travel time between the two cities in half.
BCDA Group
The Philippines also struggles with economic development, and building an eco-city from scratch will come with a hefty price tag. According to Wong, public-private partnerships will help finance the project.
BCDA Group
In recent years, countries around the world — especially China — have unveiled plans for pie-in-the-sky urban developments. A number of realized projects have failed to attract a significant population, and turned into ghost cities.
|
|
Construction sites and vacant streets in Xiangluo Bay, a new biggest central business district under construction in Tianjin. Zhang Peng/LightRocket via Getty Images |
Yujiapu and Xiangluo Bay, a metro area that was supposed to be known as “China’s Manhattan,” is half-built and largely empty.
Building cities from scratch rarely solve existing problems, but designing them can help urban planners imagine what’s possible.
BCDA Group
source: businessinsider.com
PAG-AARALAN | Petisyon para sa dagdag singil sa toll sa mga expressway, hindi pa aprubado ayon sa Toll Regulatory Board
Posted 6 years ago
Manila, Philippines – Maaaring umabot ng hanggang 40 percent ang dagdag-singil sa toll ng mga expressways gaya ng NLEX o at SCTEX o Subic – Clark – Tarlac Expressways.
Sa gitna ito ng inihaing petisyon sa toll regulatory board o TRB na taas singil sa mga expressway.
Pero nilinaw ni TRB Spokesman Bert Suansing, hindi pa nila inaaprubahan ang naturang hirit at dadaan pa ito sa masusing pag-aaral.
Tiniyak naman ni Suansing na magiging makatwiran ang ipapataw nilang dagdag singil para hindi ito maging mabigat sa bulsa ng mga motorista.
source: rmn.ph
DENR collects 70 kilos of garbage along Zambales beach
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Over 70 kilos of garbage were collected during a clean up drive in Sta. Cruz, Zambales, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said Friday.
Laudemir Salac, provincial chief of DENR in Zambales, said the collected trash from the two-kilometer shoreline of Sabang village includes biodegradable and non-biodegradable items, mostly plastics.
“Plastic pollution is a big threat to our marine resources and poses a serious danger to marine life. Animals can ingest plastic trash because they mistake it as preys or food, while others may have been broken down into tiny particles by seawater,” he said.
The bulk of the collected trash was composed of single-use plastics bags, bottle labels, diapers, food and candy wrappers, plastic bottles, cans, and straws.
Salac said the clean up drive was done to engage the community in protecting the marine environment by mitigating the threats of plastic pollution in the area.
He urged the public to reduce the use of plastic materials and recycle plastic wastes.
source: centralluzon.politics.com.ph
Duterte endorser to SBMA board; 3 others get appointments
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Philippines, US troops storm ‘enemy’ in Zambales military exercises
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| A US amphibious assault vehicle trundles past Philippine Marines taking position during a simulated beach landing as part of the annual Balikatan military exercises at a Navy training camp in San Antonio, Zambales yesterday. |
MANILA, Philippines — Some 340 Filipino and American troops stormed and neutralized “enemy” positions along the coastline of San Antonio, Zambales yesterday.
By: Jaime Laude (The Philippine Star)
This was among the highlights of the Balikatan joint military exercises between the Philippines and US troops for this year.
Balikatan is the yearly joint military training carried out in the country under the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) with the United States.
Balikatan-Philippines spokesperson Lt. Liezl Vidallon said 180 Filipino sailors and Marines took part in the coastal assault with around 160 American troops.
Three American amphibious assault vehicles and two landing craft from the Philippine Navy’s landing dock ship BRP Davao del Sur took part in the drill.
Providing extra muscle to the mock beachhead assault was the Navy’s frigate BRP Ramon Alcaraz.
Simultaneously hitting the beaches, combined Filipino and American troops engaged the “enemies” in close quarter battle in an urban setting.
The joint troops will also take part in live fire exercises in a gunnery range at Crow Valley in Tarlac, as well as land combat drills at the Army’s base in Fort Magsaysay, Nueva Ecija.
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Photo credi: Alvin Kasiban |
A small number of troops from the Australian Defense Force (ADF) as well as those from Japan are also participating in this year’s land-based combat drill.
The decades-old tradition appeared headed for the history books last year as newly elected President Duterte pivoted toward China – and away from long-time Philippine ally the US.
But the number of troops taking part in the drills has increased by a third from last year to 8,000, a return to figures seen in years past when the exercises served as a thinly veiled deterrent to a rising China.
Duterte’s change of heart on the two-week Balikatan may be due to what experts see as careful efforts by the military to restrain their unpredictable president.
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| Photo credit: Alvin Kasiban |
“The fact it’s being done under this administration means they (Duterte’s government) now have a better understanding of the security equation,” political analyst Victor Andres Manhit said.
Though the bulked-up maneuvers – including a live-fire component that was dropped last year – took place on a naval base just 180 kilometers east of Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal that China has controlled since 2012, the drill’s leaders barely mentioned Beijing.
“We are an island nation. That’s why we need to improve our capabilities on amphibious operations,” Army Major General Emmanuel Salamat told reporters.
“We’re not concerned about Scarborough. We’re concerned about what we’re doing here.”
China claims most of the South China Sea, a strategic waterway believed to harbor significant oil and natural gas deposits, but this was ruled illegal in 2016 after Duterte’s predecessor Benigno Aquino III filed suit before an international maritime tribunal.
Duterte has since reversed course and set the ruling aside, along with long-simmering friction over competing claims to the waters, in order to court Chinese trade and investment.
He has also cut two major annual naval exercises with the US and last year reduced the Balikatan contingent to 5,400 US and Filipino troops.
The decision came at a low point for US-Philippine relations, when Duterte called the American ambassador “gay” and served notice that the 2017 edition would “be the last military exercise” with the United States. – With Jose Rodel Clapano, AFP
Source: philstar.com
Ferry boat services contribute to Bataan’s Economic Progress
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ORION, Bataan — The ferry boat services plying from this coastal province to Mall of Asia in Pasay City contributes to the province’s economic progress as it brings Bataan closer to Metro Manila with its only one hour trip via Manila Bay.
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| Ferry boat (photo by Mar Supnad / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) |
To give more comport to the passengers, the Ferry management has also utilised a shuttle van from Port of Orion, free of charge, to bring the commuters to various drop off points such as Petron and Lamao in Limay town, Cabcaben, Alas asin, AFAB, all the way to Mariveles town hall in the South while Bilolo, Alauli, Balanga Jollibee, Abucay cafe, Calaguiman, DPWH Orani, Hermosa public market all the way to Dinalupihan plaza in the North.
Commuters can also avail of free wifi inside the ferry boat while traveling.
“We are not yet making money here but we utilized the Ferry boat for the sake of public service as requested by Gov Abet Garcia, and we cannot refuse it,” pointed out Goody Ilagan, the Ferry president.
With the deployment of the airconditioned fast craft, traders and the public can now certainly reach Manila and vice versa from this town in just an hour without the hassle of being caught in monstrous traffic jam.
Bataan has become one of the most progressive provinces in Central Luzon and hosts two free ports- Freeport Area of Bataan (FAB) and the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA), providing employment to almost two hundred thousand personnel and workers.
It has become a home to most of the region’s largest industrial businesses, such as, aside from FAB and SBMA, the multi-billion Bataan Petron Refinery in Limay town; the Hermosa Economic Zone; the Petrochemical plant; the soon to be put up P60 billion industrial zone project in Biaan, Mariveles; among others.
Bataan’s strategic location within the economic gateway of Manila Bay and the special economic zones is a key feature that would anchor further investments in the province and in the whole Central Luzon as well, said Gov Garcia. The 1Bataan Integrated Transport System, (Ferry boat operator) is a joint project by the Provincial Government of Bataan thru Gov. Garcia and Magic Leaf Marine Logistics Corp. led by its President Mr. Manuel Carlos “Goody” Ilagan, Jr.
The Ferry service project which started its soft run last December 11, 2017 ushers in the birth of a modern comprehensive and integrated transportation service system, promoting further the industrial growth and sustainability of the province and elevating the standard of living of its residents towards a better quality of life for Bataan residents and businesses alike.
Its travel route starts from MOA Esplanade Seaside Terminal (EST) and docks in Port of Capinpin in Orion, Bataan.
By Mar Supnad
Source: news.mb.com.ph
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