MRT Thread

[kisshmet]

Expensive compared to what/who? The local mish mash of groups that said they could do the same quality of work for 'less'? We already know what that got us.

The investigations of what was publicized (for what i recall so correct me if i am wrong here) was that sumitomo always kept spare parts inventory on stock, and they never cannibalized parts from other trains... A far cry from what the others dod, no spare parts, cannibalize parts of what was left of sumitomo's work and did not even do rail rehab when it was needed eventhough they should have done it, but they didn't because that would eat into their cashflow.

We got quality work with little to no downtime when sumitomo was at the helm... Once that was thrown out the window and others took over, we got the exact opposite... Rail service become the exception rather than the norm...

And what proved to be 'more expensive' with losses in public transport service then?

We'd have to wait til 2021 for the rehab to be fully complete, and hopefully... No more of the same after...

We can't really expect all the problems that beset the mrt3 to suddenly be gone after sumitomo comes in. So, here is hoping we dont get a repeat in the future where people simply looked at the peso value without looking at the company's capability to handle such a job.

Now that sumitomo is back..were there no more problems with spare parts of the train coaches?

What sumitomo were doing before was cannibalize part from one train after another that falls apart. The problem wasn't glaring then bcoz sumitomo started with more trains to cannibalize. After all theres strength in numbers.

Through the years the number of available train coaches dwindled which eventually resulted in the dearth. The only solution to the problem with the paucity of running coaches is replacement of the old. That's what those dalian train purchase was for. Then again it was politicized as overweight & unfit for the rails (proven otherwise by the 3rd party auditor hired by the duterte admin)

Again those coaches are of old design..no longer being manufactured..can be fabricated to the limits of any good fabricator

This govt can proceed on using the dalian coaches..improve the rails..improve the power supply..improve the signaling system

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