A San Miguel Corp.-backed consortium that is seeking to build the Metro Rail Transit Line 7 has two weeks to close a deal with lenders or face another round of delays, Transportation Secretary Joseph Abaya said yesterday.…
The Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) has been getting a lot of heat, more recently for the sorry state of mass transportation in Metro Manila, particularly the Metro Rail Transit Line 3. Perhaps, hoping to have…
A Palace official on Saturday said suing Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya over the persistent problems hounding the Metro Rail Transit-Line 3 (MRT) was not the answer to the country’s transport woes. Reacting to the pronouncement of…
A case of too many lawyers handling a technical problem. This was how Sen. Grace Poe summed up the situation of the glitch-ridden Metro Rail Transit (MRT). Poe, head of the Senate subcommittee on transportation inquiring into…
ANGELES, Pampanga—Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya will be made to face charges for the problems of the Metro Rail Transit (MRT), according to Sen. Grace Poe. Poe said the Senate subcommittee on public services, which she heads…
Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya should make public the newly-signed service contract for the maintenance of the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) 3, according to Sen. Grace Poe. Poe, who has led Senate…
Nothing is improbable, especially when it comes to the Department of Transportation and Communication and the busy Metro Rail Transit Line 3—a situation that appears to be getting messier and messier. It’s been a jam-packed start to…
The Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 217 remained firm on its ruling stopping for 20 days the acceptance, processing and approving of permit applications for Uber and GrabCar operations amid confusion on the scope of the…
A Quezon City court has ordered a 20-day suspension of the implementation of a Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) order permitting the app-based ride-sharing companies Uber and GrabCar to operate in Metro Manila. Judge Santiago Arenas…
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) will ask a Manila court to reconsider its recent order stopping the agency’s driver’s license card supply project, as it warned that the ruling may adversely affect motorists, including Filipino drivers working…
