* This is my paper at the Economy section, BusinessWorld July 26, 2019.
WASHINGTON, DC — It’s my first time to land at Washington Dulles International Airport from Manila via Seoul-Incheon airport. The two previous times (2004 and 2009) that I went to Washington DC, I landed at Ronald Reagan Washington International Airport.
WASHINGTON, DC — It’s my first time to land at Washington Dulles International Airport from Manila via Seoul-Incheon airport. The two previous times (2004 and 2009) that I went to Washington DC, I landed at Ronald Reagan Washington International Airport.
From Dulles to Washington DC proper, I
took the bus-rail combination. It is safe, convenient and cheap, only $10 or
about 1/6 of the taxi or Uber fare here; travel time for this combo is about
one hour. When I went to Kuala Lumpur in May, I also took the train-bus combo
from KL International Airport (KLIA) to my hotel in KL city center. Bus fare
from KLIA to KL Sentral is about 12 ringgit or 1/3 of Ekspress train.
Metro rails are good complements to
international airports. Metro Manila has one of the shortest rail network among
developed and developing Asia, we need to have more.
The development and expansion of trains
from international airports and seaports to and from Metro Manila was not
covered by President Rodrigo R. Duterte in his State of the Nation Address
(SONA) 2019 on Monday. Congress leaders should prioritize these.
------------------
See also:
BWorld 351, SONA economic numbers, July 22, 2019
BWorld 352, SONA and ICCC-13, July 26, 2019
BWorld 353, SONA 2019: what was said and not said, July 28, 2019
No comments:
Post a Comment