Earlier of this day, hundreds
of passengers were offloaded during a malfunction on its braking system that causes them to walk across
Ortigas and Shaw Boulevard. However, commuters of the Metro Rail Transit Line 3
(MRT 3) can expect to have a little stress as the Department of Transportation
will increase the number of trains by the end of the holy week.
During a public
services hearing about the state of MRT 3 stations, DOTr Undersecretary Timothy
James Batan said that we can anticipate an improvement on the services of MRT
as when the spare parts will arrive, it will allow them to add 10 more trains
by the end of February.
The suppliers for the additional parts of the train
include Nikka Trading (railway tracks), Linkers Enterprises (Rolling stock), and
Pink Armour Corporation (power and OC’s) that will costs a total of Php 400
million. Their other target is to have a total of 15 trains when they going to
shut down for 3 ½ days this coming holy week however it is still inadequate
especially in peak hours.
The executive department recently signed the
Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with a Canadian company Bombardier for the
acquisition of Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) for transmitting the extra
parts and maintenance of MRT 3.
Japanese Engineers Opinions
The secretary then stated
that the Japan International Cooperation Agency also discuss with them about
the issues in MRT. He revealed that their Japanese counterparts will go in and
out of MRT 3 to evaluate and restore the system where the engineers were mainly
Filipinos.
Last November 2017, it was announced that Sumitomo Corporation and
its technical partner, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will return as the rail
transport maintenance provider.
They previously designed and maintain the
operations in MRT 3 from 2000 until 2012. According to a report by MRT 3
administration, there was an average of 2 glitches per day and for January
2018, the system had 26 glitches such as passenger unloading.
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