Light Rail Manila Corp. (LRMC) is targeting to increase the train speed of Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT1) to 60 kilometers per hour (kph) by the second quarter of the year.
The plan to raise the speed is now possible since company has been able to complete the 26.5-kilometer rail replacement last year.
“From 40 kph magiging 60 kph na, probably in the second quarter,” LRMC chief operating officer Rodolfo Chansuyco told reporters on the sidelines of a forum in Makati City on Thursday.
“So, completed na ‘yung mga rails and we still need to do some tests. We need to ensure that they can run at 60. So there will be testing,” he said.
“We are just fulfilling some tests, improvements, commissioning, quality check. We also have a ‘quality team’ to certify na all things are done there and complied with the checklist ang ... process, then we go ahead,” Chansuyco noted.
With the trains running at a top speed of 60 kph, the number of trips per day will increase by 15 percent. LRMC president and CEO Juan Alfonso said.
Since it took over the maintenance and operation of the mass rail system on September 12, 2015, LRMC was able to increase the number of light rail vehicles running from 77 to 109 coaches or from 25 trains to around 30, he said.
“With this, the headway or the waiting time for commuters to ride a train was reduced to 3.5 minutes from between 5 and 6 minutes when we took over,” Chansuyco noted.
A study commissioned by the LRMC showed that LRT-1 ridership increased by 16 percent in 2015 to 2017.
“Before we took over, nasa around 400,000 passengers average per day. Now, it is around 500,000,” Chansuyco said.
Clean trains and stations and better ticket-buying efficiency, helped increase the number of commuter on the LRT1, according to LRMC. —VDS, GMA News
The plan to raise the speed is now possible since company has been able to complete the 26.5-kilometer rail replacement last year.
“From 40 kph magiging 60 kph na, probably in the second quarter,” LRMC chief operating officer Rodolfo Chansuyco told reporters on the sidelines of a forum in Makati City on Thursday.
“So, completed na ‘yung mga rails and we still need to do some tests. We need to ensure that they can run at 60. So there will be testing,” he said.
“We are just fulfilling some tests, improvements, commissioning, quality check. We also have a ‘quality team’ to certify na all things are done there and complied with the checklist ang ... process, then we go ahead,” Chansuyco noted.
With the trains running at a top speed of 60 kph, the number of trips per day will increase by 15 percent. LRMC president and CEO Juan Alfonso said.
Since it took over the maintenance and operation of the mass rail system on September 12, 2015, LRMC was able to increase the number of light rail vehicles running from 77 to 109 coaches or from 25 trains to around 30, he said.
“With this, the headway or the waiting time for commuters to ride a train was reduced to 3.5 minutes from between 5 and 6 minutes when we took over,” Chansuyco noted.
A study commissioned by the LRMC showed that LRT-1 ridership increased by 16 percent in 2015 to 2017.
“Before we took over, nasa around 400,000 passengers average per day. Now, it is around 500,000,” Chansuyco said.
Clean trains and stations and better ticket-buying efficiency, helped increase the number of commuter on the LRT1, according to LRMC. —VDS, GMA News
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