MRT 3 flops in providing transportation duties

By: John Marc Cruz
Photo from: Philippine Primer



Over the past months, Metro Railway Transit (MRT) has failed to do its service to the public.

As the Department of Transportation (DOTr) took an interim maintenance of the MRT to its provider Busan Universal Rail Inc., as of November, the number trains running has gone down from 20 to 6.

Since February, no more than nine trains operated to the railway which resulted to downfall of the average daily passenger of 463,000 to 236,000.

In line with this, Premium Point-To-Point Buses (P2P) had become the answer for the suffering of the commuters.

Instead of riding the MRT, passengers chose to settle with the P2P buses even it will cost them a little much higher than their usual fare in the railway.

This problem really matters as said by the Bayan Secretary General Renato Reyes as he believes that the MRT 3’s condition has become “a symbol of government neglect and mismanagement.”

“It’s not the length of the rails that matters. It’s the overall impact MRT 3 has on commuters and the national budget. That is why the public needs to scrutinize the government’s respose to MRT 3 crisis,” said Reyes in the Philippine Daily Inquirer article.

However, Transportation secretary Arthur Tugade assured the public that after the Holy Week, the number of trains that will operate will increase to 15.

Spectators said that the solution to the deteriorating state of the MRT is the rollout of the 48 Dalian trains acquired by the Aquino administration from China.

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