Manila's Light Rail Transit (LRT) and Metro Rail Transit (MRT)
What A Chaotic Wednesday!
It's September 16, 2015- Wednesday and my friend found out that a Book Sale has started at SMX! We gotta go there!
Yes, from United Nations Avenue-LRT Station, Manila, my friend and I decided to ride LRT to get to Mall of Asia (MOA) where SMX is located. SMX is a convention center just beside Mall of Asia, where my friend will check a Book Sale. We will get off at Gil Puyat Ave. station and ride a jeep that will take us to MOA.
And after three (3) trains that were packed with people; that's 30 minutes of waiting, we just decided to ride a jeep instead, to get to Gil Puyat Avenue or Buendia, where MOA-bound jeeps are waiting. Here are some photos that we took and proof as how people flocked to LRT everyday just to get to the southern part of the city...
Finally, one train arrived, but still almost full... People rushed to the train's doors to get inside the coaches...
...And the train's doors closed with more people waiting. The train was not able to accommodate them...
Many decided to sit at the few benches available to wait for an almost empty train...
More people arrived as minutes passed by...
We decided to go down and saw some college students sitting on the station's floor, exhausted from waiting that long!
On our way to the station's exit, still a lot of locals were waiting for the next train to arrive... As the machine scanned our tickets, P11.00 was deducted, although we haven't travelled anywhere!
On my way back to the north, to Trinoma Mall, I took MRT...
It's hard to balance on both feet, especially on a moving train that stops on every station! ;(
Whew! This is one of those days that I wanted to get a chopper for P10,000.00 ride to get to my destination! And, one of those days that you hate Manila! ;(
It's September 16, 2015- Wednesday and my friend found out that a Book Sale has started at SMX! We gotta go there!
Yes, from United Nations Avenue-LRT Station, Manila, my friend and I decided to ride LRT to get to Mall of Asia (MOA) where SMX is located. SMX is a convention center just beside Mall of Asia, where my friend will check a Book Sale. We will get off at Gil Puyat Ave. station and ride a jeep that will take us to MOA.
And after three (3) trains that were packed with people; that's 30 minutes of waiting, we just decided to ride a jeep instead, to get to Gil Puyat Avenue or Buendia, where MOA-bound jeeps are waiting. Here are some photos that we took and proof as how people flocked to LRT everyday just to get to the southern part of the city...
This is around 4:20PM...
People are starting to get agitated, since it takes time for one train to arrive and the third train that came was still full!...
People are still lining up outside the payment booths...waiting for instructions when to finally go into the flatform...
People became bigger...and still waiting!
Finally, one train arrived, but still almost full... People rushed to the train's doors to get inside the coaches...
...And the train's doors closed with more people waiting. The train was not able to accommodate them...
Many decided to sit at the few benches available to wait for an almost empty train...
More people arrived as minutes passed by...
We decided to go down and saw some college students sitting on the station's floor, exhausted from waiting that long!
On our way to the station's exit, still a lot of locals were waiting for the next train to arrive... As the machine scanned our tickets, P11.00 was deducted, although we haven't travelled anywhere!
On my way back to the north, to Trinoma Mall, I took MRT...
Oh, yeah, I'm standing again inside the MRT train and greatly disappointed for the lack of enough safety hand rails available inside the coach!
It's hard to balance on both feet, especially on a moving train that stops on every station! ;(
Whew! This is one of those days that I wanted to get a chopper for P10,000.00 ride to get to my destination! And, one of those days that you hate Manila! ;(
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