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Especially uwian ngayong hapon (But we&#8217;ll try our best to have 20 buses for augmentation on our part. Especially by afternoon rush hour),&#8217; Nu\u00f1ez said.<\/p>\n<p>To date, these four buses plus three light-duty trucks and two military trucks were deployed from EDSA Taft to Monumento and vice versa and are scheduled for deployment during morning and afternoon rush hours.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) will deploy 50 buses on the same route, from 4 a.m. onwards<br \/>\nbeginning Maundy Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;These buses will have pickup and drop off points along Taft Avenue, specifically Edsa-Taft, Gil Puyat, Doroteo Jose, Carriedo, and Monumento,&#8217; the DOTr said in an advisory.<\/p>\n<p>The LRT-1 began its temporary suspension of operations on Wednesday and will end on Easter Sunday, with normal operations to resume by April 1 at its usual start time of 4:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The temporary closure will allow the Light Rail Manila Corporation (LRMC), the private operator and maintenance provider of the LRT-1, to conduct annual preventive maintenance activities as well as facilitate the testing activities for the system integration of the LRT-1 Cavite Extension.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Philippines News Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA: Several government agencies on Wednesday deployed free ride buses to serve passengers affected by the temporary shutdown of the Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT-1) during the Holy Week.<\/p>\n<p>In a Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon interview, Metropolitan Manil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gov&#039;t deploys buses to serve passengers affected by LRT-1 shutdown - Malaysian Tribune<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/malaysiantribune.com\/govt-deploys-buses-to-serve-passengers-affected-by-lrt-1-shutdown\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gov&#039;t deploys buses to serve passengers affected by LRT-1 shutdown - Malaysian Tribune\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"MANILA: Several government agencies on Wednesday deployed free ride buses to serve passengers affected by the temporary shutdown of the Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT-1) during the Holy Week. 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