Manila LRT Yellow Line

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Manila LRT Yellow Line
Stations 18
Operational 1984
Length 15 km (9.3 miles)
Station distance (m) 825
Daily passengers 350,000 (2004)

The Manila LRT Yellow Line is the first metro line of the Manila Light Rail Transit System. Presently, the line contains eighteen stations and runs over fifteen kilometers of fully elevated track. As the name implies, the line is colored yellow on all LRT maps.

The line runs in a general north-south direction, linking the cities of Caloocan, Manila and Pasay. Passengers can transfer to the Purple Line at Doroteo Jose station, while passengers can transfer to the Blue Line at EDSA station.

Before the launch of the Strong Republic Transit System, the Yellow Line was known as LRT Line 1, shortened to LRT-1, or the Metrorail. However, the yellow color of the line dates back to its opening in 1984.

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[edit] History

[edit] Street alignment

The Yellow Line is predominantly aligned to the path of Taft Avenue (Radial Road 2), which was chosen largely due to its straight length. Later on, as Taft Avenue ends, it shifts to Rizal Avenue and Rizal Avenue Extension (Radial Road 9) before ending at the corner of Rizal Avenue Extension and EDSA.

[edit] Map and stations

[edit] Future plans

[edit] Yellow Line Southern Extension

A southern extension of the Yellow Line, also known as LRT-6, is proposed. The extension has 10 stations over some 11.7 kilometres and will be the first line extending outside the Metro Manila area with the line ending in Bacoor in Cavite. An unsolicted bid to conduct this work from Canada's SNC-Lavalin was rejected by the Philippine government in 2005. In 2006, the government is working with advisers (International Finance Corporation, White & Case, Halcrow and others) to conduct an open-market invitation to tender for the extension and a 30-year concession to run the extended LRT-1 line.

The following stations compose the Southern Extension:

The line would be extended from Pasay City southwards, connecting Parañaque City, Las Piñas City and the municipality of Bacoor in Cavite to the LRT network.

[edit] Further extensions

Further extensions of the Yellow Line are planned. The line would be extended from Bacoor, connecting the municipalities of Imus and Dasmariñas in Cavite to the network.

[edit] Incidents and accidents

  • On Rizal Day (December 30), 2000, a Yellow Line car exploded near Blumentritt station as part of a series of explosions in a terrorist attack known as the Rizal Day bombings. The attack on the LRT killed some 22 people and injured hundreds. Eight members of both Jemaah Islamiyah and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which include Hambali, Asia's most wanted man, and the late Fathur Roman al-Ghozi, were charged with plotting and masterminding the attacks in 2003, some three years after the attacks. Three suspects are now on trial.
  • On May 5, 2005, Lea Aquino Ababa of Pasay City gave birth to a baby girl inside Doroteo Jose station on her way to Fabella Memorial Hospital for a checkup, the first time a baby was born and the first time an LRT passenger gave birth inside an LRT station. She was named Dorotea, after the name of the station.
  • In late May 2005, a fisherman jumped off a moving Yellow Line train headed northbound and landed on the tracks. After that incident, he was then subsequently hit by a southbound Yellow Line train, with the man being dragged under the train until the train stopped at Vito Cruz station at about 3:00 PM. LRTA employees then took him to Philippine General Hospital, where he suffered from massive head injuries and eventually died at 8:00 PM. Police say it was an apparent suicide after his wife left him for another man.
  • In a report reported by the Philippine Star on August 18, 2005, another man was either pushed off or jumped off a moving LRT train, landing on the tracks. He was then hit by another LRT train. LRTA officials called a code yellow alert and brought the man to the hospital. As of press time, the man was in critical condition.
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