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(Eagle News) — Minors can avail of free Metro Rail Transit-3 rides on Wednesday, Nov. 6. The MRT-3 said children 18 years old and below may avail of the free rides from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on that day. The management said they only need to present their school identification cards. The MRT-3 said this is in celebration of the 27th National Children’s Month.
(Eagle News)–The Metro Rail Transit-3 will not extend its operating hours this holiday season. In a statement, the MRT-3 said this was to pave the way for the “full-blast rail replacement activities.” “Maglalaan po muna tayo ng sapat na oras at panahon para sa rail replacement in the last three months of this year. Masyado na pong sira-sira at baku-bako ang ating mga riles kaya kinakailangan na po talaga itong mapalitan sa lalong madaling panahon,” […]
(Eagle News)–Operations of the Metro Rail Transit-3 have resumed after they were temporarily suspended following the 5.5-magnitude earthquake off Quezon on Friday, Sept. 13. In a Tweet, the MRT-3 said operations resumed at 5:29 p.m. Operations were suspended a little before 5 p.m. following the earthquake. “On hold movement ng trains due to earthquake. Still checking facilities,” MRT-3 Director Mike Capati had said. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake hit 40 […]
(Eagle News)–The Metro Rail Transit 3 resumed full operations on Friday, Sept. 6. The MRT-3 management said as of 5 p.m., trains from North Ave. to Taft Ave. and vice versa were already operational. It said this was after the Overhead Catenary System Team “successfully reconnected and restored the catenary cable that was cut earlier today at Guadalupe Station” at 4:35 p.m. The discovery of the cut cable prompted the suspension of MRT-3 operations at […]
(Eagle News)–Operations of the Metro Rail Transit-3 have partially resumed. In a recent advisory, the MRT-3 said now operational were the trains going from North Avenue Station to Shaw Boulevard Station and vice versa. So far, repair work to restore the full service in the entire line is still ongoing. Operations were suspended starting 6:42 a.m. due to a cut cable of the Overhead Catenary System in the northbound station of Guadalupe. The MRT-3 earlier […]
(Eagle News)–Metro Rail Transit-3 operations were suspended on Friday, Sept. 6. An advisory from MRT-3 said the suspension starting 6:42 a.m. was due to a cable of the Overhead Catenary System (OCS) being cut at the northbound Guadalupe Station, which caused insufficient power supply from Shaw Boulevard to Santolan. The MRT-3 said repair was ongoing so far. It said additional buses have been dispatched to ferry MRT-3 passengers to their destinations. “After restoring operations, we […]
(Eagle News)–The Metro Rail Transit-3 management has emphasized it puts the safety of its passengers first before revenue maximization, following a Commission on Audit report that noted that the country’s railway system’s revenues were down 26 percent since the Department of Transportation took over last year. “Revenues require ridership, ridership requires trains, and it is unfortunate that the number of reliable and safe trains available to MRT-3 in 2018 went down due to years of […]
(Eagle News) — The Metro Rail Transit 3 management has reminded the public to remain from throwing trash in the vicinity of stations. The MRT-3 issued the reminder after they were forced to regulate trains on the northbound and southbound lanes at 1:57 p.m. on Thursday, March 21, following the discovery of a cloth (“lona”) in the overhead catenary system at the interstation of Boni and Shaw Boulevard in the northbound direction. The OCS is a system of overhead wires used […]
(Eagle News) — Over 200 passengers had to be unloaded from a Metro Rail Transit-3 train on Friday, March 8. This was after the train encountered an electrical failure in its motor at 12:52 p.m. The 250 passengers were unloaded at the Boni station, southbound. They were allowed to board the next train, which arrived four minutes later. ‘The MRT-3 apologized for the inconvenience, saying one “cause of electrical failure in motor is worn-out electrical […]
(Eagle News)—The Metro Rail Transit-3 is offering free rides to women on Friday, March 8. The MRT-3 said the free rides would be available from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., and from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The MRT-3 said the free rides were in celebration of International Women’s Day.
(Eagle News) — Metro Rail Transit-3 operations were briefly interrupted on Tuesday, March 5, after one of the trains suffered an electrical failure. Merrowen Mendoza, MRT-3 communications officer, said authorities were forced to remove a train from the main line following the electrical failure at the interstation of Quezon Avenue and North Ave. at 7:47 a.m. No passengers had to be offloaded. Operations resumed three minutes later, Mendoza said.
(Eagle News)—The Department of Transportation on Sunday, Feb. 24, said it would “not take sitting down” the discovery of a grenade in the bag of a man inside a Metro Rail Transit 3 station. “The DOTr MRT-3 would like to stress that this matter will be taken seriously,” it said in a statement a day after the live grenade was found in the package of Christian Guzman, 29. The grenade, which was wrapped in packaging […]
