Senator Grace Poe on Wednesday said that the Department of Transportation (DOTr) should start the year with urgency in addressing Metro Rail Transit (MRT) problems.
According to Poe, we can see that the MRT’s current system is already on its last leg as already shown by its frequent breakdowns, especially in the latter part of 2017.
“The DOTr should start the year with urgency in addressing this problem, that might require extensive repair work rather than just regular maintenance,” Poe said in a statement.
The senator, however, emphasized that the extensive repair on the MRT will possibly put its operations on hold, which will give a huge problems to the commuters since there’s no alternative mass transport system that will replace it.
“This is the challenge that the government should solve asap,” she said.
“Hopefully, the new year will give the DOTr the chance to start fresh and show us that it is a department that is capable of making better management and engineering choices and not politically driven decisions,” she concluded. (Tretch Melarpes – PTV)
