{"id":42693,"date":"2015-02-17T11:48:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T03:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=42693"},"modified":"2015-02-17T15:45:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T07:45:24","slug":"domino-effect-on-board-mrt-passengers-fall-as-train-comes-to-grinding-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/17\/domino-effect-on-board-mrt-passengers-fall-as-train-comes-to-grinding-halt\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Domino effect\u2019 on board MRT; passengers fall as train comes to grinding halt"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23999\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MRT3_Shaw2-URBANRAIL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23999\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MRT3_Shaw2-URBANRAIL.jpg\" alt=\"MRT3 Shaw Boulevard Station (Photo courtesy of UrbanRail)\" width=\"550\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MRT3_Shaw2-URBANRAIL.jpg 550w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MRT3_Shaw2-URBANRAIL-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MRT3 Shaw Boulevard Station (Photo courtesy of UrbanRail)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014An executive of local news source, the Inquirer, said that some passengers on board a southbound Metro Rail Transit (MRT) \u201cfell like dominoes\u201d when the train suddenly came to an abrupt stop; not once, but twice on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Connie Kalagayan, corporate communications chief of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, was on board the train when the it twice came to a sudden stop between GMA-7-Kamuning and Santolan stations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe safety handle which I was holding on and shared by another passenger broke due to the force of the brake. Some passengers fell like dominoes,&#8221; Kalagayan said.<\/p>\n<p>In compliance with standard operating procedures when malfunctions occur, the passengers were ordered to get off the train, alighting at the Santolan station at approximately 10 am of February 17.<\/p>\n<p>Although no further details were made available at the time of this writing, the MRT command center confirmed with reporters from the Inquirer that the train did experience a technical problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014An executive of local news source, the Inquirer, said that some passengers on board a southbound Metro Rail Transit &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":23999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42693","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=42693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}