“Traditional” taxi cab owners are up in arms over the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) order allowing smartphone ridesharing applications like Uber, Grabcab, East Taxi and Tripda to legally operate in the Philippines. According to Jesus…
MANILA, Philippines—The launch of the first of two private sector-led elevated expressways linking northern and southern Metro Manila was held on Wednesday, marking the formal start of a major infrastructure project aimed at easing traffic jams in…
A company led by conglomerate San Miguel Corp. and Indonesia’s Citra Group have set for Wednesday the groundbreaking for its northern and southern connector road expressway, dubbed Metro Manila Skyway Stage 3. The project, to be undertaken…
The government imposed the “heaviest penalty” and cancelled the franchise of a 20-year-old bus company over the Dec. 16, 2013, highway accident that killed 21 people and injured 24 others in Taguig City. But while the order…
The group of businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan has increased its stake in the company operating North Luzon Expressway after buying portion of France-based Egis Projects SA’s holdings, a filing to the stock exchange showed on Monday. Metro…
The 89-kilometer Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEX), which is expected to boost business and tourism in central and northern Luzon, may be fully completed ahead of schedule by 2015, one of its stakeholders said on Sunday. Conglomerate San…
The head of the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT 3), which runs through Edsa, defended a recently implemented “crowd control” scheme limiting train riders to batches of 500 people at a time. In an Inquirer Radio…
President Aquino has expressed concern over the roadworthiness of public utility vehicles after a bus of Don Mariano Transit Corp. fell off the southbound lane of Skyway in Parañaque City on Monday. Eighteen people were killed and…
MANILA, Philippines — The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) said victims from the accident involving a Don Mariano passenger bus that fell off the Skyway elevated toll road in Southern Metro Manila on Monday would…
Conglomerate Ayala Corp. may soon seal an agreement with the operator of South Luzon Expressway (SLEx) for a planned road linkage with Ayala’s four-kilometer Daang Hari tollroad project in southern Metro Manila, which is slated to open…
