LRTA Celebrates 31st Anniversary
Ref: Atty. Hernando T. Cabrera
LRTA-MRT3 Spokesperson
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Evelyn E. Paragas
Manager, Public Relations Division
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The Light Rail Transit (LRT) Authority celebrated its 31st founding anniversary last July 12 and 15, 2011 with the theme "Tren-ta-Uno Anyos ng Serbisyong Ayos!" at the Line 2 Santolan Depot, Pasig City.
Highlighting the two-day celebration was the awarding ceremony for deserving and loyal employees of LRTA held last Tuesday.
This was followed by the “One Big Fun Day” held last Friday, which aimed to foster camaraderie and unity among its officials and employees.
With its "fiesta" theme, lots of games such as palosebo, luksong-tinik, patentero and kadang-kadang were participated in by LRTA employees during the day.
The celebration was capped by a motivational talk by Presidential Communications Group for Operations Secretary Herminio "Sonny" Coloma.
31 years of service
LRTA Administrator Rafael S. Rodriguez stressed that LRTA has been serving millions of commuters from different places for about 31 years.
"It was the country's historic honor to have launched the first rail way system in the whole of Southeast Asia, even ahead of Singapore and Malaysia, Rodriguez said.
Although it began with a loan from Belgium, the railway system has evolved into a modern, state-of-the-art railway facility that has been supported by other countries that integrated the technologies of Japan, the United States, Korea, France, Singapore and Germany.