MANILA, Philippines – Operations of the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT3) will officially be extended by another hour starting Monday, March 24.

“Officially, extended na po ang hours ng MRT3 today,” Transportation Secretary Vince Dizon said in a press briefing on Monday. “Nagdagdag na rin ng additional train ang ating MRT3 today during rush hour.”

(Officially, MRT3 has extended its operational hours today. They also added an additional train today during rush hour.)

This means that, on weekdays, southbound stations will close after 10 pm and northbound stations are extending operations until around 11 pm.

Here is the new closing schedule of southbound stations:

For northbound stations:

Dizon said that they have coordinated with MRT3 management on the requests made last week after the transport chief inspected the railway.

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The transport chief said management will be conducting additional maintenance hours during the weekend.

“Titignan natin ang epekto niyan sa maintenance, pero, base naman sa pag-uusap namin ng ating maintenance operator, mukhang kakayanin naman, so we would keep that as is kasi malaking bagay ‘yan lalong lalo na sa mga kababayan natin na ginagabi,” Dizon said.

(We will look at how this will affect maintenance work, but, based on our conversations with our maintenance operator, it looks like the extension is feasible, so we would keep that schedule as is because this is a big help to our people who end up being out late.) – Rappler.com