A NO-PARKING policy and a new traffic scheme expected to benefit students of Saint Pedro Poveda College on Edsa, Quezon City, will be implemented starting July 4 to ease traffic in the area during the morning rush…
Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. on Tuesday said he supported the granting of emergency powers to President-elect Rodrigo Duterte to solve what has evolved into a traffic crisis in Metro Manila. In an interview at the sidelines of…
DAVAO CITY, Philippines—The Duterte administration plans to declare a “traffic crisis” in Mega Manila and seek emergency powers that will address in the next two years what incoming Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade said was a problem that…
IT’S A MALACAÑANG prerogative that can be invoked when the country is in a state of war or a crippling nationwide calamity. But one of the key allies of incoming President Rodrigo Duterte is in favor of…
With classes resuming in most schools on June 13, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is proposing a “15-second rule” for cars that would load or unload students at campus gates located along major thoroughfares. MMDA Chair…
The administration of President-elect Rodrigo Duterte has placed Metro Manila’s traffic woes in its crosshairs with a plan to rapidly deploy infrastructure projects aimed at dramatically cutting road congestion in two to three years. Incoming Public Works…
DAVAO CITY—Once he assumes power, incoming President Rodrigo Duterte will immediately tackle two critical problems that confront, if not hurt, Filipinos daily: crime and poor public transportation. “I have to declare a crisis in the war against…
METRO Manila’s traffic woes can’t be solved overnight, but possibly within two to three years, according to a “Marshall-like” solution being offered to presumptive President-elect Rodrigo Duterte by Filipino consortium Philtrak Inc. Francis Yuseco Jr., who heads…
A BOMB scare on a bus shut down a portion of the northbound lane of Edsa in Cubao, Quezon City, on Sunday evening, choking traffic for several hours in the area. The scare began at Shaw Boulevard…
HANDS down, or faces palmed, the transportation department of this country is a mess, if we base it solely on the innumerable rants from netizens on social media and traditional media consumers who have had to deal…
