AFTER hurling threats — most of them richly deserved — at the owners of Metro Manila’s two water concessionaires at the end of last year, President Rodrigo Duterte has turned his sights on the consortium behind the Light Rail Manila Corp. (LRMC), the operator of the Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT-1). The President should be careful not to let his ire at the parties involved, Ayala Corp. and the Metro Pacific Investments Corp., compromise an objective review of their concession.
In addition to operating the existing LRT-1, the Ayala/MPIC group also won the contract to build and operate the P64.9-billion LRT-1 extension to Cavite.