{"id":6689,"date":"2014-04-11T13:53:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T05:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=6689"},"modified":"2014-08-29T00:07:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:07:13","slug":"government-should-take-control-of-mrts-operations-consumer-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/11\/government-should-take-control-of-mrts-operations-consumer-advocate\/","title":{"rendered":"Government should take control of MRT’s operations\u2014consumer advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With the problems that are hounding the Metro Rail Transit (MRT), many were asking, who\u2019s really in-charge of its operations?<\/p>\n

The MRT 3 is operated by the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) and the Metro Rail Transit Corp. (MRTC). Metro Pacific Investments Corp. has a 48-percent stake in the MRTC, which owns the assets of the MRT 3.<\/p>\n

But just recently, the DOTC won a court battle over the MRTC, enabling the former to have the right to decide to buy new coaches for the MRT 3. While there has been also a proposal from the MRTC to provide additional coaches at no additional cost to the government, the DOTC is firm that they want to have complete control of the MRT 3 operations.<\/p>\n

New coaches will arrive in February 2015, Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said.<\/p>\n

A call to the gov\u2019t to take control<\/b><\/p>\n

On April 8, Tuesday, Elvira Medina, president of the\u00a0National Center for Consumer Protection, urged the government to take control of the MRT 3 operations.<\/p>\n

In a radio interview, Medina underscored that many coaches are not working properly because the supposed owners were not able to buy vital parts for the train system.<\/p>\n

For Medina, it\u2019s about time that the government reviews its build-operate-transfer scheme for vital utilities.<\/p>\n

She added that the Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA), which is owned and managed by the government works more efficiently as compared to the MRT Corp.<\/p>\n

With facts from Business Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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