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'5-minute challenge': Faster Cubao-Makati travel attainable by yearend, says official

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Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/02/09/traffic-020917.jpg"/><figcaption>Heavy traffic along EDSA.<em> ABS-CBN News File photo</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA - The government remained optimistic that it could complete enough infrastructure projects to attain the 5-minute travel time from Cubao in Quezon City to Makati City by December, a public works official said Wednesday.</p><p>Several infrastructure projects in Metro Manila are set to be completed this year which are expected to decongest EDSA, making the 5-minute travel time “doable,” said ‘Build, Build, Build’ inter-agency committee chair Anna Lamentillo.</p><p>“We are working towards the 5-minute challenge… This is doable,” she told reporters.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">‘Build, Build, Build’ interagency committee chair Anna Lamentillo says 5-minute travel time from Makati-Cubao still ‘doable’ by December 2019 <a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABSCBNNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/mkXBiblNBq">pic.twitter.com/mkXBiblNBq</a></p>— Arianne Merez (@arianne_merez) <a href="https://twitter.com/arianne_merez/status/1158963538305531904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2019</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>President Rodrigo Duterte earlier said that travel between Cubao to Makati could be reduced to 5 minutes, from the current travel time of at least an hour, by yearend.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/06/08/19/cubao-to-makati-in-5-mins-duterte-says-just-wait">Cubao to Makati in 5 mins? Duterte says just wait</a></li></ul><p>The government planned to decongest EDSA this year through opening a portion of the Metro Manila Skyway Stage 3, and a section of the NLEX Harbor Link. </p><p>The recent opening of a portion of the C5 South Link which connects the cities of Taguig and Pasay also aids traffic management in the main thoroughfare, Lamentillo said.</p><p>“We are not just effectively decongesting traffic today, we want to effectively create a transportation network in Manila that will aid us in the future,” she said.</p><p>With the new roads, Lamentillo said vehicle volume in EDSA is expected to go down at the end of the year.</p>

<p>The government remained optimistic that it could complete enough infrastructure projects to attain the 5-minute travel time from Cubao in Quezon City to Makati City by December, a public works official said Wednesday.</p>

The government remained optimistic that it could complete enough infrastructure projects to attain the 5-minute travel time from Cubao in Quezon City to Makati City by December, a public works official said Wednesday.

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'5-minute challenge': Faster Cubao-Makati travel attainable by yearend, says official

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Published Aug 07, 2019 07:53 PM PHT

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