TRAIN WOES: Senator Chiz Escudero, chairman of the Committee on Finance, listens to officials of the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) as they assert the need to purchase additional trains to meet the demands of the public. According to its officials, the MRT is only designed to handle 350,000 passengers but the current number has reached more than 500,000. (PRIB Photo by Romeo Bugante/07 April, 2014).