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(Eagle News) — Some of the country’s rail lines resumed operations on Monday, April 5. But because the operations of the Metro Rail Transit-3, Light Rail Transit-1, and LRT-2 are still limited to pave the way for a mass testing of all its employees, the Department of Transportation said the government would continue its deployment of buses to assist affected commuters. The DOTr said the MRT-3 will deploy only 10 to 12 trains, with affected […]
(Eagle News) — The personnel involved in the hasty disinfection of Metro Rail Transit-3 trains as seen in a viral video will be relieved from their posts. The Metro Rail Transit-3’s said its maintenance provider Sumitomo-MHI-TESP has also vowed to file administrative charges against the personnel, and has issued an apology over the incident. According to the MRT-3, Sumitomo is deploying additional staff to supervise its disinfection teams and is rolling out a re-training of […]
Says no unloading incident recorded since June (Eagle News)–The MRT-3 has deployed 19 train sets to accommodate more passengers in the main line. The MRT-3 said the train sets, composed of 16 CKD train sets and three Dalian train sets, will also help the MRT-3 minimize the waiting interval between trains. The MRT-3 said the three Dalian trains were provisionally accepted in July 2019 and passed the required commissioning after undergoing an intensive Reliability, Availability, […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Transportation has announced the installation of 93 new airconditioning units in Metro Rail Transit-3 trains. The DOTr said the units were apart from the 33 installed in August and the 60 installed in 2018. The agency said Sumitomo MHI-TESP purchased over 120 airconditioning units worth P167 million under the comprehensive rehabilitation of the MRT-3. The MRT-3 earlier announced the old railway tracks would be replaced by 4053 new railway pieces from […]
(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 […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Buhay Party-List Representative Lito Atienza challenged the Duterte administration to sack or fire the officials of the Metro Rail Transit. This was in connection with the repeated and continuous setbacks faced by the transport system, and that causes untold misery to commuters. In the system’s most recent “breakdown,” one of the MRT-3 trains experienced technical difficulties on Wednesday, September 27. This was the sixth time the MRT-3 broke down […]
