Senator Grace Poe on Wednesday stopped short of telling Department of Transportation (DoTr) Sec. Arthur Tugade to resign if he will not be able to fulfill his promise of improving the services of Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3) by end of the month.
Tugade should face PISTON in Senate hearing on Thursday.
Senator Grace Poe is worried about the leadership problems in the Department of Transportation (DoTr) as hinted at by resigned Undersecretary Cesar Chavez.
It’s not entirely Department of Transportation (DoTr) Sec. Arthur Tugade’s fault if the Metro Rail Transit Line 3(MRT3) operations have further deteriorated under his watch.
Senator Grace Poe on Wednesday, urged President Duterte to certify as urgent the proposed grant of emergency powers to him to finally address the perennial traffic problem.
The Duterte administration is studying the possible transfer of operations of the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 under the privately-run Light Rail Transit in a bid to address not only frequent train breakdowns but other concerns besetting the current set-up.
The Palace expressed its continuing support to Transportation Sec. Arthur Tugade following calls for him to resign due to the government’s inability to address the huge traffic problem in the metropolis.
Construction of the Subic-Clark cargo railway line could have started even before President Rodrigo Duterte assumed office had his predecessor, former President Benigno Aquino III, listened to and approved the project, Bases and Conversion Development Authority president Vince Dizon said.
