There may be hope for the vehicular traffic situation in Metro Manila, which has been ranked the worst on Earth by users of a road navigation application. Amid growing public clamor to improve the deteriorating railway systems…
THE LAND Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has ordered a bus company to pay a P1-million fine and surrender its license plates after the agency canceled its franchise for operating out-of-line. The LTFRB order signed by…
MANILA, Philippines — It was over in 30 minutes. Bearing in mind a lesson painfully learned five years ago, Manila police shot dead on Thursday, a man who took a passenger hostage aboard a southbound bus on…
THE knife-wielding man who stormed a bus Thursday on Taft Avenue, Manila and held hostage a woman passenger suffered two gunshots and was pronounced dead at the Philippine General Hospital. READ: Passenger bus held hostage in Manila…
Two government agencies are “seriously considering” the deployment of double-decker buses along Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (Edsa) to address the “horrendous traffic congestion” in Metro Manila. The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and the Philippine National…
THE LAND Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has revoked the franchise of Valisno Express for 24 buses, almost a month after one of the units crashed into a concrete boundary marker and left four passengers dead.…
With 135 southbound provincial buses rerouted to C-5 during the morning rush hour, the Provincial Bus Operators Association of the Philippines (PBOA) asked commuters to go to their designated terminals instead of waiting for them on Edsa.…
The odd-even scheme, car pooling, and increasing the number of buses on Edsa to accommodate more passengers were among the schemes being considered by government agencies to ease the traffic congestion in Metro Manila. These proposals were…
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has wrapped up its hearing on the Aug. 12 accident involving a Valisno Express bus and will decide whether the company’s franchise should be revoked on or before Sept.…
Following a fatal road crash being blamed on one of her drivers, the owner of the Valisno Express bus company failed to attend a hearing on the incident set by a regulatory agency on Tuesday, supposedly due…
