The average travel time on Edsa was cut by 21 minutes in the first two days that the Interagency Council on Traffic held a dry run of the “no window” policy. Contrary to an earlier assessment made…
For the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), the first day of the dry run of the “no window hour” policy was a “relative success” since it reduced travel time on Edsa by three minutes. “I think it…
The Interagency Council on Traffic (I-ACT) will intensify road-clearing operations in the coming weeks on four of the 17 Mabuhay Lanes in Metro Manila to ease the expected traffic congestion during the holiday season. Chief Supt. Antonio…
Say goodbye to weekday sales. In a bid to ease traffic during the holidays, the Interagency Council on Traffic (I-ACT) and mall operators in Metro Manila agreed on Friday that starting Oct. 21 until Jan. 9, 2017, mall sales will…
It has been two months of wrangling in both Houses of Congress, and the nation is still to see the progress of the emergency powers sought by the President in resolving the traffic problem in Metro Manila.…
THE PRESIDENT can be given emergency powers but this was not the only solution to the worsening traffic problem in the country, according to an architect and urban planner. “Of all the proposals I am seeing now,…
In commentaries on and analyses of the horrendous traffic gripping Metro Manila, the government can find not just a few short-term solutions to ease the problem. True, the remedy is the development of an efficient mass transportation…
RESIDENTS of Metro Manila’s upscale residential villages where most of the country’s most powerful families reside are worried because of the traffic situation. No, they are not worried about getting stuck in traffic, per se. But they…
IT’S ALL in the mind, a transport official said of the country’s traffic situation. It’s the Filipinos’ “state of mind” that actually worsens the country’s traffic situation, Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade maintained on Tuesday, adding that using…
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has announced changes in some of the intersections and segments of EDSA. The MMDA quotes the Inter-Agency Council on Traffic (i-ACT) Traffic Advisory: The i-ACT through the PNP-HPG, MMDA, LTO, LTFRB and…
