{"id":49360,"date":"2015-05-14T13:15:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T05:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=49360"},"modified":"2015-05-14T13:15:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T05:15:02","slug":"ca-ruling-allows-dotc-to-buy-trains-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/14\/ca-ruling-allows-dotc-to-buy-trains-from-china\/","title":{"rendered":"CA ruling allows DOTC to buy trains from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15926\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15926\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/court.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15926\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/court.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Department of Transportation was allowed to acquire additional trains for the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) from a Chinese supplier.<\/p>\n<p>In a ruling upholding a 2014 decision, the Court of Appeals \u00a0denied the plea of the Metro Rail Transit Corp. (MRTC) and MRT Holdings II seeking to stop the department from awarding a contract for the supply of new trains to a Chinese supplier.<\/p>\n<p>The DOTC was eyeing to acquire 48 new light rail vehicles (LRVs) from Dalian Locomotive &amp; Rolling Stock of China.<\/p>\n<p>On a six-page resolution written by Justice Ma. Elisa Sempio Diy, the court said that it has not found a valid reason to stop the DOTC from awarding the project to the Chinese supplier.<\/p>\n<p>It added that the petitioners&#8217; grounds for seeking a temporary restraining order are speculative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter due consideration of the parties\u2019 arguments, we find no cogent reason to set aside or reverse our earlier ruling denying petitioners\u2019 prayer for a temporary restraining order and\/or writ of preliminary injunction. Petitioners\u2019 allegation that the present procurement of LRVs from Dalian Locomotive could lead to higher risks of train collisions and cause incalculable damage to the MRT 3 system is speculative,\u201d the court said in a six-page resolution written by Justice Ma. Elisa Sempio Diy.<\/p>\n<p>The court agreed with the DOTC adding that the writ of preliminary injunction was \u00a0no longer feasible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Department of Transportation was allowed to acquire additional trains for the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) from a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49360","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=49360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}