{"id":240180,"date":"2019-12-16T19:14:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T00:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=240180"},"modified":"2019-12-16T19:14:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T00:14:58","slug":"lrt-2-cuts-operating-hours-on-eve-of-christmas-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/12\/16\/lrt-2-cuts-operating-hours-on-eve-of-christmas-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"LRT-2 cuts operating hours on eve of Christmas, New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TAKE NOTE: The LRT-2 System will reduce its operating hours on Dec. 24 &amp; Dec. 31, 2019 in anticipation of a significant decline in ridership and to allow our station\/security personnel to celebrate Christmas &amp; New Year&#39;s Eve with their families. Happy holidays! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LRT2HolidaySched?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LRT2HolidaySched<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BMNwTZ4Llr\">pic.twitter.com\/BMNwTZ4Llr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LRT2 (@OfficialLRTA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialLRTA\/status\/1206368821688168448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Operating hours of the Light Rail Transit Line 2 (LRT-2) will be reduced on both Christmas Eve and New Year\u2019s Eve to allow the train service&#8217;s workers to celebrate the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>In a Twitter post, the Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA), operator of the LRT-2, said aside from giving their workers more time for the holidays, another consideration for the cut was the expected decline in ridership on both days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe LRT-2 System will reduce its operating hours on Dec. 24 and Dec. 31, 2019 in anticipation of a significant decline in ridership and to allow our station\/security personnel to celebrate Christmas &amp; New Year&#8217;s Eve with their families,\u201d the Twitter post read.<\/p>\n<p>On December 24, Tuesday, the last train from Cubao Station (Westbound) will arrive at 8 p.m., while the last train from Recto Station (Eastbound) will also arrive at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>On December 31, Tuesday, both the last trains from Cubao Station and Recto Station will arrive at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>There will be no changes to the LRT-2\u2019s first commercial train trips in both directions, at 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>In November, the LRTA said restoration of service of the Santolan, Katipunan, and Anonas stations may take another four months, or by March or April 2020.<\/p>\n<p>With a total approved budget of PHP562.9 million divided into six contracts, a six-month deadline was set by the Congress for the repair of the LRT-2 after two power rectifiers (transformers) exploded and caught fire in the rail line early October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAKE NOTE: The LRT-2 System will reduce its operating hours on Dec. 24 &amp; Dec. 31, 2019 in anticipation of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":240181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-raymond-carl-dela-cruz","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240180","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=240180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240182,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240180\/revisions\/240182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}