Proposed Extension Design of MRT-EDSA Monumento North Terminal and Shopping Complex

Leodegario  V. Manuel Jr.,

Proposed Extension Design of MRT-EDSA Monumento North Terminal and Shopping Complex

Abstract:

In response to traffic jams, urban sprawl, and disconnected land uses characterizing metropolitan regions throughout the country, Transit-Oriented Development movement puts forward a vision of new communities based on a reinvigorated rail transit system. Transit-Oriented Development centered on both suburban and urban rail transit stations, not only encourages transit readership, but also embraces goals of increased neighborhood cohesion, public safety, and community revitalization.

This research contains a detailed case study of a Transit-Oriented Development of Monumento in Caloocan City and an introduction to other emerging developments including Araneta Center in Cubao, Quezon City and Forth Bonifacio in Manila.

This study explores a wide range of issues that are important in meeting the challenges of Transit-Oriented Development. Challenges such as: Integrating issues of land use, transportation planning, community development/redevelopment and local economics, revitalizing rail transit in response to infrastructure, investment constraints, and growing environmental regulation of motor vehicles and utilizing design opportunities associated with pedestrian access, mixed use communities, diversified housing, community safety, and the intangibles of a “sense of place”

The Monumento of Caloocan City has all the elements needed to become a Transit-Oriented Development. These elements should further be rehabilitated to acquire its potential benefits of providing mobility choices, public safety, increased transit ridership, reducing rates of vehicle miles traveled, households’ disposable income, reducing air pollution and energy consumption rates, conserving resource lands and open space, playing a role in economic development, contributing to more affordable housing and local infrastructure costs.