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<\/p>\nHeavy traffic has been the daily struggle of commuters in the Philippines. With different modes of transportation\u2014both public and private vehicles\u2014out on streets to accommodate a big population, roads became seriously congested especially in the metro.<\/p>\n
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MRT-3. DOT is set to improve services in the MRT Line 3 System. Image grabbed from Wikimedia<\/a><\/p>\n To alleviate this problem, the Department of Transportation (DOT) has been exerting efforts to improve services in the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) Line 3 system with the assistance from maintenance provider, Busan Universal Rail, Inc.<\/p>\n Busan spokesperson Charles Perfecto Mercado, said that a maximum of 22 trains are targeted to operate within this month. Also, during peak hours, commuters can be rest assured that 20 trains will be running.<\/p>\n Currently, there are 18 trains in operation during peak hours and a maximum of 20 trains in MRT-3. However, these are still not enough to occupy more than 650,000 passengers daily.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, development plans for MRT-3 are still ongoing as DOT waits for the delivery of power supply meant for the use of 4-car trains. These longer trains are expected to be deployed by mid-next year to increase capacity.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source: BusinessWorld<\/a>, The Standard<\/a>, Rappler<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Heavy traffic has been the daily struggle of commuters in the Philippines. With different modes of transportation\u2014both public and private vehicles\u2014out on streets to accommodate a big population, roads became seriously congested especially in the metro. MRT-3. DOT is set to improve services in the MRT Line 3 System. Image grabbed from Wikimedia To alleviate this problem, the Department of Transportation (DOT) has been exerting efforts to improve services in the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) Line 3 system with the assistance from maintenance provider, Busan Universal Rail, Inc. Busan spokesperson Charles Perfecto Mercado, said that a maximum of 22 trains are targeted to operate within this month. Also, during peak […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/10\/MRT-3_Train_North_Avenue_1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8648,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589\/revisions\/8648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![Wikimedia<\/a><\/p>\nTo alleviate this problem, the Department of Transportation (DOT) has been exerting efforts to improve services in the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) Line 3 system with the assistance from maintenance provider, Busan Universal Rail, Inc.<\/p>\nBusan spokesperson Charles Perfecto Mercado, said that a maximum of 22 trains are targeted to operate within this month. Also, during peak hours, commuters can be rest assured that 20 trains will be running.<\/p>\nCurrently, there are 18 trains in operation during peak hours and a maximum of 20 trains in MRT-3. However, these are still not enough to occupy more than 650,000 passengers daily.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, development plans for MRT-3 are still ongoing as DOT waits for the delivery of power supply meant for the use of 4-car trains. These longer trains are expected to be deployed by mid-next year to increase capacity.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nSource: BusinessWorld<\/a>, The Standard<\/a>, Rappler<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy traffic has been the daily struggle of commuters in the Philippines. With different modes of transportation\u2014both public and private vehicles\u2014out on streets to accommodate a big population, roads became seriously congested especially in the metro. MRT-3. DOT is set to improve services in the MRT Line 3 System. Image grabbed from Wikimedia To alleviate this problem, the Department of Transportation (DOT) has been exerting efforts to improve services in the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) Line 3 system with the assistance from maintenance provider, Busan Universal Rail, Inc. Busan spokesperson Charles Perfecto Mercado, said that a maximum of 22 trains are targeted to operate within this month. Also, during peak […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/10\/MRT-3_Train_North_Avenue_1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8648,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589\/revisions\/8648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:MRT-3_Train_North_Avenue_1.jpg\"){kind=link}