{"id":23953,"date":"2014-08-28T15:50:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T07:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=23953"},"modified":"2014-08-28T16:16:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T08:16:28","slug":"government-working-to-improve-mrt-lrt-services-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/28\/government-working-to-improve-mrt-lrt-services-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Government working to improve MRT, LRT services &#8212; Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23996\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23996\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MRT-photobucket.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23996\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MRT-photobucket.jpg\" alt=\"Passengers desperate to catch a ride. (Photo courtesy of PhotoBucket owner)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MRT-photobucket.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MRT-photobucket-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MRT passengers desperate to catch a ride. (Photo courtesy of PhotoBucket user)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The government is paying close attention to the problems of the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) and the Light Rail Transit (LRT) to ensure the best service to commuters, a Malacanang official said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is the reason why talagang inaasikaso ngayon ito. \u2018Yung maintenance pinag-aaralan. Matatapos na yata \u2018yung maintenance ng bagong maintenance provider,&#8221; Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said during a press briefing in the Palace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Matatapos na ang kontrata \u2018nung maintenance provider. So these are concerns of the DOTC (Department of Transportation and Communications) and LRT.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lacierda also said that LRT administrator and MRT3 officer-in-charge Honorito Chaneco explained the current situation of the MRT and LRT during a hearing at the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>An LRT train stalled at the Pedro Gil Station in Manila on Wednesday (August 27) morning while the MRT-3 had to suspend operations at noon on Saturday (August 23) following a communications system breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, a defective MRT train crashed into a barrier at the Taft Avenue Station, injuring more than 30 passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The government is paying close attention to the problems of the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) and the Light &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":23996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}