{"id":42937,"date":"2015-02-19T10:43:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T02:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=42937"},"modified":"2015-02-20T01:47:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T17:47:25","slug":"another-mrt-3-train-malfunctions-on-chinese-new-year-daybreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/19\/another-mrt-3-train-malfunctions-on-chinese-new-year-daybreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Another MRT-3 train malfunctions on Chinese New Year daybreak"},"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 &#8212; A Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3) train along Epifanio Delos Santos Ave. (EDSA) malfunctioned in the early morning hours of the Chinese New Year on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Reports showed that the northbound train from the MRT Taft Ave. Station stalled before reaching the Ortigas area at around 5:55 a.m., forcing passengers to alight before reaching their destinations.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the MRT-3 also experienced glitches on Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s incident caused a number of passengers to complain about falling \u201clike dominoes\u201d after the train suddenly stopped due to the accidental activation of the rail line&#8217;s automatic protection system.<\/p>\n<p>MRT-3 general manager Roman Buenafe, meanwhile, said the management is looking into adding more hand straps inside the trains as a safety precaution.<\/p>\n<p>Hand straps allow passengers to have something to hold on to stay in place in case an MRT-3 coach makes a sudden stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; A Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3) train along Epifanio Delos Santos Ave. (EDSA) malfunctioned in the early &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-42937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42937","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=42937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42937\/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=42937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}