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Gov't breaks ground on common station for trains, subway

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<figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AGY0w5ZEp-0?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><p>MANILA <strong>(UPDATED)</strong> - The government on Friday broke ground on a common station that will serve hundreds of thousands of commuters using the country&#x27;s railways and planned subway system.</p><p>The P2.8-billion structure, which will be built between the SM North Edsa and Trinoma shopping malls, will be completed in 2019, the Department of Transportation said in a statement.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ANCRecap?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ANCRecap</a>: DOTr leads groundbreaking ceremony of the LRT-MRT common station. <a href="https://twitter.com/jacquemanabat?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jacquemanabat</a> reports. <a href="https://t.co/rlmmt6c0es">pic.twitter.com/rlmmt6c0es</a></p>— ABS-CBN News Channel (@ANCALERTS) <a href="https://twitter.com/ANCALERTS/status/913573556289552386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2017</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>The common station will interconnect lines 1 and 2 of the Light Rail Transit, Metro Rail Transit line 3 and the soon to be built MRT line 7 and the Mega Manila Subway, the department said.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/business/multimedia/infographic/04/26/17/infrastructure-is-key-to-dutertenomics">READ: Infrastructure is key to &#x27;Dutertenomics&#x27;</a></li></ul><p>The ground level of the common station will be used by buses, jeeps and Asian utility vehicles, according to the statement.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/business/01/18/17/look-proposed-design-of-mrt-lrt-common-station">LOOK: Proposed design of MRT-LRT common station</a></li></ul><p>Construction on the common station was held back by a decade due to a dispute on its location.<strong> -- with Jacque Manabat, ABS-CBN News</strong></p>

<p>MANILA (UPDATED) - The government on Friday broke ground on a common station that will serve hundreds of thousands of commuters using the country's railways and planned subway system.</p>

MANILA (UPDATED) - The government on Friday broke ground on a common station that will serve hundreds of thousands of commuters using the country's railways and planned subway system.