The Department of Transportation (DOTr) on Friday assured the riding public that the 16.9 rail line is safe after authorities received a bomb threat.
Upon receipt of the threat via e-mail early Friday morning, Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista immediately activated an Inter-agency task force composed of the DOTR Office of Transportation Security, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Cybercrime Investigation Coordinating Center and the Philippine National Police Railway Security to “enhance security deployment in all transportation sector.”
“The task force would like to assure commuters that we are taking all actions to ensure safe and secure travel in all public transport systems,” the DOTr said.
The agency added the government is taking necessary precautionary measures to ensure the safety and security of the riding public.
“We appeal to netizens to refrain from circulating and sharing unverified information so as not to cause undue panic,” DOTr said.
“We are conducting continuous assessment as to the credibility of the threat as the basis for our next actions,” it said.
The MRT3 system runs from North Avenue in Quezon City to Taft in Pasay CIty. In 2022, MRT3 served a total of 98,330,683 passengers, a huge improvement from the past two years.
The figure was more than double the 45,691,914 total ridership in 2021, and of the 31,887,174 total in 2020.
