The Philippine press is reporting that
industry sources said that a consortium that is vying for the Light
Railway Transit extension contract is on the verge of breaking up as two members (AMA Group Holdings and SNC Lavalin) are engaged in a dispute over who should supply the equipment and trains and how much funding the Philippine government should
source.
It was only with the construction of a national
railway system in the middle decades of the 19th century, using coal rather than muscle as its
source of mechanical energy, that transport could achieve advances to parallel those already long achieved in the branches of
industry in which cheap and abundant heat energy was the key to rapid expansion.