TRANSPORTATION Secretary Arthur Tugade has ordered the filing of charges against or collection of damages from passengers who would forcibly open the doors of the Metro Rail Transit-3 (MRT-3).

Tugade’s order stemmed from an incident last week when the MRT-3 was forced to unload thousands of commuters at the Santolan-Annapolis station southbound about 8:01 a.m. after one of its doors malfunctioned. It was the first unloading incident of the MRT-3 since April 2.

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