MRT resumes full operations after brief suspension

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MANILA, Philippines – Full operations of the Metro Rail Transit resumed Monday morning after a 20-minute suspension due to an “anomaly” detected along its southbound lane, an MRT official said Monday.

Renato San Jose, MRT director for Operations, said its Automatic Train Protection System detected an “anomaly” at the railway of Kamuning station around 5:40 a.m., which caused a roughly 20-minute suspension of operations.

Full operations resumed around 6 a.m. after corrective maintenance work was conducted, he said.

Asked what causes the seemingly frequent maintenance in MRT, San Jose said it was because of overloading.

“Kung makikta mo, dahil ito sa sobra sobra nang dami ng pasahero [or] overloading (if you will see, this is because of overloading),” he said, noting that overloading has affected the frequency of maintenance work in MRT’s facilities.

“Parang sasakyan lang yan. Kapag yung capacity ng sasakyan mo ay limang tao, e lagi mong sinasakyan ng anim or pito, therefore, ang maintenance ng sasakyan ay nagkakaroon ng mas malaking frequency [compared] sa sakyan na konti lang ang sakay,” San Jose said.