Dodged bullet or missed opportunity? a history of planned monorails for Manila, 1961–1985

This article 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...

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Published in:	Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 70, no. 1 (Mar. 2022), 3-43
Main Author:	Rosette, Judith Camille E.
Other Authors:	Reyes, Miguel Paolo P.
Resource Type:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	2022
Subjects:	Transportation > Technological innovations Marcos, Ferdinand Emmanuel E., 1917-1989 Railroads > Political aspects Monorail railroads > Planning Monorail railroads > Design and construction