Busan Universal Rail Incorporated vows to finish the overhaul of 42 MRT-3 new coaches until 2019.

The Metro Rail Transit System Line 3 has been hounded by system glitches and safety issues.

The Busan Universal Rail Incorporated (BURI) answered allegations that it failed to follow the conditions set in its contract as the maintenance provider of MRT 3.

The company said the government can’t just cut its contract due to the existing procurement law.

“The procurement law recognizes that there is an arbitration process,” BURI legal counsel and corporate secretary, Atty. Charles Mercado said.

It also said that it cannot carry all the blame for the glitches in the operations of MRT.

BURI argued that the mass transit system has already been experiencing glitches long before it became its maintenance provider.

The firm said since 2007, under its then maintenance provider Sumitomo, the MRT 3 had already recorded 532 incidents of unloading passengers due to problems in the train.

In fact, BURI noted, glitches in the train operations have lessened by 17 percent since it handled the train’s maintenance works.

Meanwhile, BURI vows to do all it can to finish the overhaul of 42 MRT train coaches until its contract ends in 2019.

The Department of Transportation is complaining of what it claims as BURI’s slow overhaul of trains, which the DOTr said, could help resolve the usually long lines at all MRT stations in Edsa.