MRT Line 8 (Metro Manila)

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8
Overview
Other name(s)	PNR East-West Rail
Status	Proposed
Locale	Manila, Quezon City
Stations	11
Service
Daily ridership	600,000 (projected)
Technical
Line length	9.4 km (5.8 mi)
Route map
	San Jose Del Monte
	North Avenue
	Quirino Highway - FTI
	NAIA Terminal 3
	North Avenue - Taft Avenue
	Quezon City
	Manila
	Gov. Pascual-Valenzuela / Tutuban
	FTI / Alabang / Calamba
	Roosevelt-North Avenue
	Antipolo
	Baclaran- Niog
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The Manila Metro Rail Transit System Line 8, or MRT-8 (formerly designated as MRT-9, now designated to Metro Manila Subway Line 9), also known as PNR East-West Line, is a proposed rapid transit line in the Philippines. It would be a 9-kilometer (5.6 mi) railway system connecting Sampaloc, Manila and Diliman, Quezon City via Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon Avenue, and España Boulevard. The unsolicited proposal for the project was submitted to the Philippine government by Malaysia-based construction engineering company AlloyMTD group in 2016,^[1]^[2] and is awaiting approval by the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA). According to MTD Philippines, Inc. President Patrick Nicholas David, the project would cost PHP 60 billion.^[3]

Stations

Line 8 would have 11 stations, all located in Quezon City or Manila.

Name	Structure Type	Transfers	Location
University Avenue	Depressed	MRT Line 7	Quezon City
Quezon Memorial	Depressed	MRT Line 7
EDSA	Depressed	3 MRT Line 3 MMS Metro Manila Subway
Timog	Elevated	none
A. Roces	Elevated
G. Araneta	Elevated
Banawe	Elevated
Welcome Rotonda	Elevated
Antipolo	Elevated		Manila
University of Santo Tomas	Elevated
Lerma	Elevated	LRT Line 1 LRT Line 2

^ Magkilat, Bernie Cahiles- (March 21, 2018). "Alloy MTD offers to build P60-B Lerma-UP railway". Manila Bulletin Business. Retrieved July 10, 2018.
^ Ab Wahab, Norsyafawati (November 10, 2016). "AlloyMtd to embark on Philippine MRT-9 project next year". www.thestar.com.my. Retrieved July 10, 2018.
^ Crismundo, Kris (March 21, 2018). "Malaysian firm waits NEDA's nod for P60-B MRT-9 project". ptvnews.ph. Retrieved July 10, 2018.