Ok ok, so Metro Manila’s MRT lines (a system of elevated and sometimes underground electricity-driven trains) have nothing on a completely subterranean transit system like London’s Underground.

But here’s some good news: bidding is now open for a Php 6.4 billion project to build a connection between the end of the blue and the end of the yellow line. What’s really great about this is that a record 20 firms are submitting proposals.

Hooray! If the interest of many firms in a mass transit project isn’t a sign of this country’s improving fortunes and reputation, then I don’t know what is. I only wonder though how long it will take to achieve this.

Find out more about the MRT system here (still under construction apparently), here (needs a little updating) and here.