(Updated) MRT train cars uncouple, passengers forced to walk on train tracks

 

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from the Inquirer:

“About 140 passengers were forced to walk along the rails of the MRT Thursday morning after a coach had detached from the main train. xxx” 

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“human error” in MRT train crash does not absolve MRT corp & DOTC

    The transportation department held a press con this afternoon to explain that the train crash this week was due to “human error”.

     Legally, however, this does not absolve the MRT corporation, the transportation department, and its officials from responsibility…. here are the pertinent laws — this podcast plays automatically … unless the audio is derailed, jumps off the tracks, flies off, smashes against cement… crumples into a heap.

(Music, a few seconds’ snippet, from a song written by Peter Tosh, performed by Bob Marley, photo from the DOTC website on an MRT contract-signing, both used here non-commercially for academic purposes)