THOSE who know about dates and chronology of events know too well that the genesis of the MRT 3’s slide to hell began in earnest in 2012. That was the year a group of LP operatives mostly from Pangasinan incorporated a cottage industry called PH-Trams with a vile but grand design – bag the lucrative operations and maintenance (O & M) contract of the MRT 3.
It was just like contracting a quack clinic to fight the Ebola nightmare. But that did not matter. The LP flunkies knew that all handicaps of the cottage firm PH-Trams would be obscured by their LP affinity. The confidence was on firm ground. Several weeks after the incorporation of PH-Trams, it bagged the more than P500 million a year contract to operate and maintain the MRT 3.
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