ON my schedule of topics for this week was an item that said, 'Whatever happened to those Chinese trains?' The 'Chinese trains' are the so-called Dalian trains purchased for some P3.
ON my schedule of topics for this week was an item that said, 'Whatever happened to those Chinese trains?' The 'Chinese trains' are the so-called Dalian trains purchased for some P3.8 billion in 2014 by the then-Department of Transportation and Communications under former president Benigno Aquino III's administration for use on the Metro Rail Transit 3.
They did see some limited service as attempts were made to make them compatible with the line — I happened to catch one at Ayala Station one time, and it was a nice ride, whatever other problems it had — but Sumitomo eventually put its foot down and banned them until they were fixed, compelling the government to agree to the prohibition in the 2019 rehabilitation and maintenance contract. In a nutshell, there are two things that might derail the plan to use the Dalian trains.
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