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Article: Govt to purchase more trains for MRT 3
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- The Manila Times
- Article date:
- February 16, 2009
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THE Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) has decided to purchase more brand new
trains for the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT 3) to expand passenger capacity.
Transport Secretary Leandro Mendoza told reporters that the DOTC, instead of MRT owner Metro Rail
Transit Corp. (MRTC), would buy new trains costing about $2 million each.
The MRTC is a consortium led by the Sobrepena family's Fil-Estate Management. Other investors are
Ayala Land Inc., Anglo-Philippine Holdings Corp., Ramcar Inc. and Greenfield Development Corp.
"We decided to buy trains and we want brand new trains to be funded by the government," Mendoza said.
The DOTC said the government gave MRTC ...