Manila LRT
Friday, June 30th, 2006Wikipedia’s featured article today is on the Manila Light Rail Transit System. Check it out.
Do you know the scene in The Great Raid where they show cable cars in Manila streets? I thought it was an inaccurate historical detail included by the filmmakers. Well, it turns out they were right. These “cable cars” were electric powered vehicles called tramvias, according to the article above. (On Google preview, Mark already mentioned it in his review of the movie).