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Baguio City eyes cable car to La Union to ease traffic

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/reuters/10/02/cable-car-2.jpg"/><figcaption>Inspiration for Baguio: cable cars at Hong Kong&#x27;s Lantau Island. <em>Amr Abdallah Dalsh, Reuters file photo</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA - Baguio City&#x27;s local government is studying proposals to build a cable car system and monorail to ease traffic congestion in the Philippines&#x27; summer capital. </p><p>The City government said on Wednesday that Mayor Benjamin Magalong recently had a meeting with Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade, who offered a deal to help set up a cable car system. </p><p>The proposed cable car system would link Baguio City with the town of Pugo, La Union, the LGU said. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/10/01/19/cable-cars-may-be-feasible-for-parts-of-metro-manila-adb-transport-official">Cable cars may be feasible for parts of Metro Manila: ADB transport official</a></li></ul><p>&quot;Conceptual designs for the project, the first in the country, will be provided to the city for review prior to the forging of the agreement,&quot; Baguio City said on its official web page. </p><div><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/pio.baguio/posts/412741522711309" data-width="auto"> </div><p>The Department of Transportation also offered to help Baguio City set up a monorail line to La Trinidad town in Benguet, which was proposed by the Department of Science and Technology-Cordillera.</p><p>The <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/video/nation/metro-manila/09/04/15/meet-agt-prototype-train-vs-commuters-woes">monorail</a>, or Automated Guideway Transit, would run from the Benguet provincial capital to the Slaughterhouse Compound in Baguio, and from the city&#x27;s Bonifacio rotunda up to the SM City Baguio passing through the central business district area. <br/> </p>

<p>Baguio City's local government is studying proposals to build a cable car system and monorail to ease traffic congestion in the Philippines' summer capital. </p>

Baguio City's local government is studying proposals to build a cable car system and monorail to ease traffic congestion in the Philippines' summer capital.