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The station is on General Santos Avenue, Parañaque City. We are not, in the slightest, familiar with this side of the metro. So we ask one of the commuters for recommendations on places to visit. She looked at us, maybe wondering why we were asking. I acknowledged the look by saying we’re both fr...
As a long-time resident of the North, anything past Makati is already considered out of the way for me. When the opportunity came up to explore the other end of the city, I jumped on it right away. The Sucat PNR station is situated behind the Sucat Thermal Power Plant. The station, like all the...
Vito Cruz holds a place near and dear to my heart. I went to high school at St. Scholastica’s College in Manila. I am pretty confident that I had thoroughly explored that area while I was there. But in this urban jungle, nothing is constant but change. The cityscape is so different now. I have...
Old pictures in black and white of steam-powered trains hanging on the walls, and a train replica placed in front of a classic blue and white edifice to complement the fine landscaping of the plaza—if it wasn’t for the railroad track, I would have thought that I was in a museum. The Philippine N...
On a Wednesday morning in September, my husband and I take our very first ride on a Philippine National Railways train. We’ve been on trains in other countries before, surprisingly; I had never given our local trains a second thought. I actually did not know that our tracks were equipped to handle...
Alighting the PNR Commuter Rail on the Buendia Station reveals a non-descript urban environment with residential buildings and older office spaces operating at the fringe of the premier business district in the country. The neighborhood literally, but also figuratively, sits on the edge. The area is...
