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(Eagle News)–Operations of the Metro Rail Transit-3 will be suspended from Nov. 28 to 30. The MRT-3 issued the reminder on Friday, Nov. 20, days before the scheduled suspension. The MRT-3 said the temporary shutdown was to give way to the “turnout activity” scheduled at Taft station. Turnouts are used to allow trains to switch from one track to the other. The MRT-3 said the activity was part of the massive rehabilitation of the railway […]
(Eagle News)–Metro Rail Transit-3 operations resumed today, Monday, Nov. 16. The MRT-3 said the first train from North Ave. departed at 4:37 a.m. The first train from Taft departed at 5:17 a.m. The MRT-3 said passenger operational capacity is at 30 percent, or 124 passengers per train car. That translates to 372 passengers allowed in each train set. The MRT-3 reminded passengers to strictly follow safety protocols including the wearing of face masks and face […]
(Eagle News)–Railway operations resume today, Nov. 13, the Department of Transportation said. The DOTr said the resumption of the Metro Rail Transit-3, the Light Rail Transit 1 and 2, and the Philippine National Railways operations was after all of them completed and passed system checks. The checks were conducted following a suspension of railway operations on Thursday, Nov. 12, due to the strong winds and heavy rains brought by Typhoon “Ulysses.” “Limited power and strong […]
(Eagle News)–The Metro Rail Transit-3 will implement partial operations on selected dates this month and in November. In a statement, the MRT-3 said instead of fully suspending operations to allow for the turnout rehabilitation, trains will only be operating from the North Avenue to Shaw Avenue stations and vice versa from Oct. 10 to 11. Turnouts allow trains to change tracks on a railroad. Partial operations are also slated from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2, […]
(Eagle News)–The Metro Rail Transit-3 has resumed operations after these had to be suspended early Friday, June 26, due to power interruption. The MRT-3 said its operations have resumed as of 7:30 a.m. Earlier, the MRT-3 said the “delay” in train operations was due to the Meralco power failure in Diliman and Balintawak yesterday, June 25, at 11:03 p.m. The MRT-3 had said buses under the MRT-3 bus augmentation program continued to ferry passengers, with […]
(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)–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) — The operations of the Metro Rail Transit were disrupted on Friday afternoon, January 26, after a train started emitting smoke between the GMA-Kamuning and Araneta Center-Cubao stations. Authorities said the smoke started at 1:42 PM. Passengers were offloaded near Cubao station and were forced to walk toward the platform of the Araneta Center-Cubao Station. The fire was contained at 2:15 p.m. According to a report from the control center, the smoke came […]
