{"id":244103,"date":"2020-02-05T00:56:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T05:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=244103"},"modified":"2020-02-05T00:56:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T05:56:32","slug":"mrt-3-unloads-700-passengers-due-to-door-glitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/02\/05\/mrt-3-unloads-700-passengers-due-to-door-glitch\/","title":{"rendered":"MRT-3 unloads 700 passengers due to door glitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89219\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1549350_567762629979092_516211750_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89219\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1549350_567762629979092_516211750_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1549350_567762629979092_516211750_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1549350_567762629979092_516211750_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1549350_567762629979092_516211750_n-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Following the malfunction, the MRT-3 said the incident was under investigation. However, it said that such cases may be caused by passengers leaning or forcing the train doors open.(File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MRT3PH\/photos\/a.567762489979106.1073741830.486787168076639\/567762629979092\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MRT3PH\/\">MRT-3 Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Some 700 passengers were offloaded from a Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3) train on Wednesday due to the malfunction of one of the train\u2019s doors.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the MRT-3 said at 7:18 a.m., one of its northbound trains unloaded its passengers at Ayala Station.<\/p>\n<p>Following the malfunction, the MRT-3 said the incident was under investigation. However, it said that such cases may be caused by passengers leaning or forcing the train doors open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cause of the door failure is still under investigation. However, a common reason is stress on door components, which may be caused by leaning on the door or forcing it open,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>After the unloading incident, the MRT-3 said the affected passengers were immediately loaded into the next train, which arrived five minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers of the rail line are reminded not to lean on train doors or force it open.<\/p>\n<p>As of 11:45 a.m., the MRT-3 said 14 trains were operational in the rail line with 13 trains currently running at headway &#8212; the time between trains &#8212; of 9.5 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a technical issue with the MRT-3\u2019s Overhead Catenary System resulted in a 20-minute delay in the train operations, the rail service said, adding that no passengers were unloaded in the incident.<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Some 700 passengers were offloaded from a Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3) train on Wednesday due to the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":89219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244103","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\/244103","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=244103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244104,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244103\/revisions\/244104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}