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Second of a series
BETWEEN April 1, 2020, and July 1, 2020, a period during which most of the nation was under lockdown due to the rampaging Covid-19 pandemic, the Department of Transportation, Metro Manila Development Authority and the Department of Public Works and Highways took advantage of the near-total absence of road traffic along EDSA to cobble together the nation's first true Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line, running the entire length of Metro Manila's main thoroughfare from Monumento in the north to the Parañaque Integrated Terminal Exchange (PITX) in the south. It was a rough job and probably not anyone's idea of a model BRT line, but it worked, and it was particularly impressive considering that it only took the government about six weeks to put together a relatively modest initial price tag of about P97.5 million.
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