Dodged Bullet or Missed Opportunity? A History of Planned Monorails for Manila, 1961–1985

• Main Authors: Rosette, Judith Camille, Reyes, Miguel Paolo
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2022
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol70/iss1/2; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/1112/viewcontent/Dodged_20Bullet_20or_20Missed_20Opportunity_20_5Bvol._2070_20no._201_20_282022_29_203_E2_80_9343_5D.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Thisarticle tells the largely untold history of the unrealized plans to construct a monorail mass transit system in Metropolitan Manila from the 1960s to 1980s, with particular focus on the proposals of a firm called Philippine Monorail Transit Systems, Inc. Besides giving attention to these mostly...