FIRST they laid the track. Now they ride the coach. In the maiden test run last Friday of the country’s first ever train developed by local experts, Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Secretary Mario G. Montejo and University of the Philippines (UP) President Alfredo Pascual personally board the train to see how the ride goes.
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Joyride. Department of Science and Technology’s
(DOST) Automated Guideway Transit successfully fulfilled its maiden test run
recently. The AGT, a joint project of DOST and UP Diliman, aims to reduce
traffic and air pollution in Metro Manila. Photo shows DOST Secretary Mario
Montejo (left), UP President Alfredo Pascual (2nd from left), DOST Assistant Secretary for Strategic Plans and Programs
Robert Dizon (center behind Pres. Pascual), along with other UP officials,
during the AGT maiden test run. (Photo and text by Joy
M. Lazcano, S&T Media Service, STII)
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