{"id":44132,"date":"2015-03-06T01:41:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T17:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=44132"},"modified":"2015-03-06T01:41:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T17:41:47","slug":"dotc-63-toilet-facilities-for-mrt-3-passengers-completed-by-sept-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/06\/dotc-63-toilet-facilities-for-mrt-3-passengers-completed-by-sept-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"DOTC: 63 toilet facilities for MRT-3 passengers completed by Sept 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5250\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5250\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MRT-3_Taft_Avenue_Station.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5250\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MRT-3_Taft_Avenue_Station.jpg\" alt=\"MRT3 (FILE PHOTO)\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MRT-3_Taft_Avenue_Station.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MRT-3_Taft_Avenue_Station-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MRT3 (FILE PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Better-functioning toilet facilities will soon be within reach of passengers taking the Metro Rail Transit 3 (MRT-3) system, the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>DOTC spokesperson Miguel Arthur Sagcal said that with the beginning of the toilet rehabilitation project last Feb. 26, all 63 comfort rooms of the MRT-3 will undergo tile replacement, installation of new fixtures, ceiling improvements, repainting, electrical and mechanical upgrades, and plumbing and de-clogging works.<\/p>\n<p>The rehabilitation project will start with the comfort rooms for male passengers and persons with disability (PWDs), which will take around four months to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Renovation of the comfort rooms for female passengers, which will be completed in another three months, will follow.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be civil works underway at the North Avenue Station in Quezon City, while renovations at other stations will begin in the following weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Sagcal said the rehabilitation project, which will be done in phases, is scheduled for completion in September this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong the basic necessities of an MRT-3 rider are functioning and decent comfort rooms,\u201d Sagcal said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlongside our improvement projects for train operations is this toilet rehabilitation project, which responds to the call of our commuters for better passenger comfort and convenience,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Better-functioning toilet facilities will soon be within reach of passengers taking the Metro Rail Transit 3 (MRT-3) system, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":5250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-n-parrocha","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44132","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=44132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}