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A Metro Rail Transit commuter train passes by in the Metropolitan Manila: the Philippines' rail sector cannot match the rapidly rising demand. © AP

Congested highways filled with Jeepneys, buses and trucks are a common sight in the Philippines because Filipinos only have two, both unpalatable, choices when it comes to rail travel.

They can either take the overcrowded Philippine National Railway, with its limited services of scratched and faded diesel trains, or the relatively new but already packed elevated railway.

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