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Tambayan ng mga Chicx at Tsonx => General Discussion => Current Events => Topic started by: Zurca on September 09, 2014, 08:40:48 PM
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MANILA, Philippines – According to President Benigno Aquino III, the problem with the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) would not be as big if the previous administration of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo had dealt with it.
On Monday, September 8, Aquino vowed his administration is “on top of the situation,” but said part of the problem was the inaction of those who came before him.
“There is a problem, but it's a problem that should have less problems attached to it if certain things were done before we took it over,” he told reporters in Davao on the sidelines of the Mindanao Inclusive Agribusiness Program launch.
"We were left with something that is really old, about 30 years old," he added.
Aquino cited complications with maintenance contracts, as well as difficulties in finding the right coaches for the best price. He said the company that wanted an extension of 25 years or 30 years to their franchises also wanted an increase in rates, which he said they did not accede to as a rise in rates would be met with resistance from the commuting public.
The president did acknowledge however, that the railway line has experienced “above normal glitches in their system,” but said the work on it is ongoing. A few weeks prior, he said the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) suspended the line's operation to “undertake a more thorough review of the entire system.”
He also highlighted that the government is getting new units to replace the old, and help accommodate the two million people who come in to the metropolis daily. According to Aquino, the current units can only accommodate about 300,000 passengers per day, but the actual ridership is about 500,000, which is “a sign people have to commute.”
Aquino said he would be meeting with Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya Monday afternoon to discuss updates on the MRT.
Asked how long the commuting public will have to tolerate the difficulties, the president said he would respond after the meeting.
“I had something like 11 problems last Tuesday I had to attend to, and this was the second batch that came Thursday. We’re still finishing the ones that came Tuesday,” he said, citing issues like the Ebola virus and the standoff at Golan Heights as the other problems he has had to attend to.
The MRT3 has been in hot water since mid-August after one of its trains derailed and bulldozed through one station’s safety barriers. Just last week, an MRT3 unit was moving with doors wide open, risking the safety of passengers.
In a Senate hearing, MRT3 officials said a fourth to a third of escalators and elevators were not functioning, the train’s signalling system was obsolete, and none of its ticketing machines were working.
From Rappler (http://www.rappler.com/nation/68485-mrt-arroyo-aquino)
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As usual.walang bago ke pnoy kung hindi sisihin ang past administration.
Happiness is not an emotion.Happiness is a way of life
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yep yep...
nothing new to PNOY.... blame game tactician..... . . . . .
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I don't like Gloria at all, pero tagal mo na jan sa pwesto tsong puro ka parin paninisi.
The problem with these brats eh everyone is wrong and they are right. Try doing your job once in a while kaya pards?
Matatapos na termino eh Gloria parin. Dami pala niya kasalanan eh, Gloria ka ng Gloria eh bat hanggang ngayon walang conviction? Sarsuela.
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Pathetic lame excuses. The said problem was already thirty years old... And nobody ever did something about it...?!
Ilang past administrations ang dumaan? And how many fingers naman kaya ang nakaturo para manisi sa bawat isa..?
... Everyday MRT is jam packed with commuters... Operational pa ren . Meaning may funds yan para gawan ng solusyon.. How come ganun statement ng nasa government ?
Well.. The real sad part is, walang katapusan ang paghihintay ng taong bayan til when sila magtuturuan at magsisisihan... I bet, yung next na administration dyan... Same rhetorical statement lang din.
.. And the waiting continues. 48 years! Lol .,,!
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Dyan magaling sa sisihan.
d n lng kumilos pra solusyonan problema
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This could be true, i think its possbile, kasi nangyari lahat nan halos nung 9yr term ni arroyo wherein di nman nabubuksan, so now lang nauungkat mabuti.....
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nasa late cycle na siya ng kanyang term langya gloria pa rin ba? hahaha
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eh kung aayusin nlng ng present administration ngayon ang kung ano man ang wala magawa ng past administration.. mabigyan pa sila ng papuri ng taumbayan. .di panay ang sisi wala naman sila nagawa..tsk tsk
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this administration has mastered the art of finger pointing... so, what is new? even napenas is the one being blamed for the whole mamasapano fiasco... sad reality...
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Manang mana talaga sa nanay. Puro sisi sa pinalitang administrasyon. Pati pagkakaroon muli ng mga brownout minana nya. Lolz.
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pwedeng totoo pwedeng hindi. pero there's one trait i don't like (uso sa pinas ito): pag walang palpak panay ang puri sa sarili, pag pumalpak panay ang sisi sa iba.
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nagsisisihan pa sa imbes na solusyunan na lang problema. wala nman maganda maidudulot kung sisi dto sisi doon.
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Ang problema dapat hinahanapan ng solusyon, di dapat hinanahanap kung sino ang sisisihin. E anu naman kung ang problema ng MRT ay gawa ng administrasyong Arroyo. Sya na ngayon ang presidente, hanapan nya ng solusyon. Maso-solusyunan ba ang problema kung magsisisihan? Di sigoryo.
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si gloria naman kase, di inayos ang mrt nung panahon niya hahahaha... ayan tuloy di din inayos ni pnoy
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Parepareho lang sila, hawa hawa kung baga. Matindi ang corruption dyan kahit matino kang papasok, no choice ka either your in or out.
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8) i can not blame the man for pointing fingers to his former teacher... GMA still has her demolition teams inside the lower house... in order for her to make a smoke screen out of her misdeeds, they make stories that could make PNoy a crying baby... gumaganti lang yung mama.... may pangalan kasing iniingatan yan, wala sa kanilang pamilya ang magnakaw... look at GMA's record, malinis ba o maiinis ka? hahahaha....
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well well
marami kasing problema ng umupo si aquino
ng pagkatapos ng term ni gloria
kaya dapat ng malaman ng mga boss ang sitwasyon para
malinaw ang usapan
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kanino kaya isisisi ng susunod na Pangulo ang pagbili ng chinese made trains?