MRT-3 / MARCH 18, 2025Commuters ride the train at MRT-3 North Avenue Station in Quezon City in this file photo taken on March 18, 2025. Department of Transportation (DOTr) have directed the MRT-3 management to ordered the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3) management to suspend its policy for hand-carried luggage. INQUIRER PHOTO / NIÑO JESUS ORBETA
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has ordered the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3) management to suspend its policy for hand-carried luggage.
This followed backlash on social media after the MRT-3 management on Wednesday reshared on its official Facebook page an old advisory reminding passengers that luggage larger than two-by-two feet in size are banned from the train line.
“DOTr Secretary Vince Dizon has been informed about an old policy with regard to limited hand-carried luggage in MRT-3,” the department said in a statement on Thursday.
“Secretary Dizon questions this policy and has immediately ordered MRT-3 General Manager Michael Capati to suspend and review it, stressing that this should not make the lives of commuters even more difficult,” the DOTr added.
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Luggage larger than two by two feet in size were prohibited from the MRT-3 through Office for Transportation Security Memorandum Circular No. 004 series of 2019, according to the train line’s management website.