An Incident Report (IR) may save your bad day at the railway.

When in Manila-- MRT is a tourist attraction for someone from the province. I, myself had my Manolo Days share of this experience. When I stayed at Manila for 2 months last 2009, I had to find means for faster transportation and exploration of the the city. MRT came first of my bucket list. Long lines in purchasing tickets, but seems to be in an affordable P15 price that time. Long lines are not over until you pass the security counters going to the train’s waiting bay area. Sadly, my first experience was at Taft Avenue and it was crazy and smelly. We were like sardines stucked inside a small can, and not to mention, everyone’s body odor just keep on mixing and flooding the airconditioning system. Nevertheless, it was indeed fast because there’s no traffic within the railway system. I also tried LRT with my friend, Wella and our first time was horrible--it was a lax day, without much passengers but we were lost! We were supposed to go to Bambang but we waited for the train at the wrong side. I had my share of derailments too, and it was scary.

Since 2012, lot of ranting against MRT services have made it through mainstream media. There were railway accidents, derailments, trains stucked in the middle of EDSA and the neverending long lines just won't cut off. So, I guess the government had to find some solution to this problem.  Sadly, their recent solution seems to be... nonsense? I think it's inferior to think (that the MRT) that by issuing Incident Report to affected customers will solve the issue. Traffic is indeed a major problem in the megacity and the MRT and LRT are dubbed to be the fastest mode of transportation. Hence, enough attention should be given, and a collaborative effort between local city officials and MMDA should embark.

A friend of mine at Manila shared this post (below), which was interesting enough to be the mother of this post / commentary.

and I made my comment..

Here’s a CNN link about that said post.