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If we can all just lower our expectations when it comes to the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3), then there would be no problem.
Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) Secretary Joseph Emilio ‘Jun’ Abaya announced on Tue, Jun 23, that the delivery of 48 new MRT trains has been deferred to January 2016 instead of the last quarter of 2015.
Abaya was quoted as saying, “What is important to us is that the train cars, once delivered, will be safe and reliable. So we prefer to be thorough with the manufacture, assembly, checking, and testing of the prototype. The monthly delivery of three-train cars should start in late January 2016.”
“A team from the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) visited the assembly plant of winning bidder Dalian Locomotive and Rolling Stock Co. of China last week, he said. The first batch was supposed to be delivered in the last quarter of the year and the last batch in March 2016,” reports Lawrence Agcaoili in The Philippine Star.
The report noted: “Dalian Locomotive submitted a bid of PHP3.759 billion or PHP10 million lower than the indicative price of PHP3.769 billion for the MRT-3 capacity expansion project. The DOTC issued a notice of award to Dalian in January 2014. However, the notice to proceed was issued only the following month after a Makati court junked a petition by the MRT Holdings Inc. to stop the implementation of the project.”
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