Starting on Friday, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will deploy traffic volunteers to augment the agency’s undermanned personnel assigned to direct vehicular flow on major roads, particularly in Quezon City. Of the 500 traffic volunteers drafted…
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III on Monday assured lawmakers that the increase in automobile excise taxes would not affect the sales of cars in the country. Dominguez attended the ways and means committee hearing at the House of Representatives…
Hyundai Asia Resources Inc. is reviewing the possibility of joining the government’s automobile resurgence program, said Trade Secretary Ramon M. Lopez. Lopez said Tuesday he met with officials of HARI last Feb. 13 to discuss the firm’s…
A lot of commuters felt good about former Public Works and Highways Secretary Rogelio Singson returning to the private sector as head of the LRT-1 concessionaire, Light Rail Manila Corp. While many people are skeptical of the…
A former Aquino Cabinet member has offered to end the ordeal of commuters on LRT 1 and MRT 3 by building a “discardable” platform that will link the two light rails while two shopping mall titans are…
SOLANO, NUEVA VIZCAYA—The road crash that killed a bus driver and injured his 27 passengers on Feb. 3 here has drawn the attention of a road safety advocacy group, after records of the Land Transportation Franchising and…
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) on Thursday opened to motorists two new lanes on the Laguna Lake Highway, formerly known as C-6 Dike Road. The new lanes, stretching between Barangay Napindan and M. L.…
ILOILO CITY—The Department of Tourism (DOT) has suspended the inspection of proposed tourism road projects in Western Visayas region following recent clashes between government troops and communist rebels. But Helen Catalbas, DOT regional director, assured that tourist…
The long-running dispute over a common railway station in Quezon City, just weeks ago deemed on a final path to resolution among rival private-sector interests and the Department of Transportation, could face fresh delays. Lawmakers are set…
Light Rail Manila Corp., the private sector operator of the Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT-1) elevated train in Metro Manila, said the groundbreaking for the Cavite extension line would be held later this month or by…
