DOTC to press for new MRT coaches

With Metro Manila traffic expected to worsen over the next few months from the construction of at least 15 infrastructure projects, the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) expressed on Tuesday the urgency to acquire 48 brand-new Light Rail Vehicles (LRVs) to beef up the operations of the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3) that traverses EDSA.

“The project is urgently needed after MRTC [Metro Rail Transit Corp.] failed to add any LRVs to the rail system despite DOTC’s demands for it do so since 2007,” the department said in a statement.