THE COLUMBIA Tower along Ortigas Avenue in Mandaluyong City may soon get some vacancies after a longtime occupant said it would move out. We’re talking about the Department of Transportation, now headed by Arthur Tugade, who made…
SAY WHAT you will about the unconventional ways of the Duterte administration, but at least one conglomerate is happy about how things are moving along. Six years after putting its proposal on the table, Metro Pacific Investment…
“Our state of mind is such, because traffic is a deplorable reality.” This was how Senator Grace Poe responded on Wednesday to Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade’s reported remark that the Filipinos’ “state of mind” worsens the country’s…
SAYING he apparently used his military training to commit murder, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has approved the filing of criminal charges against Vhon Martin Tanto, the motorist who admitted killing a biker in a road rage…
The Duterte administration has unveiled a P1-trillion nationwide pipeline of railway projects, most of which will be located in Luzon and Metro Manila where traffic congestion was at its worst, apart from urban centers in Cebu and…
Transportation assistant secretary for communications Cherie Mercado-Santos took exception to the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s article on Secretary Arthur Tugade’s urging Filipinos to shed the mindset of using “traffic” as an excuse for tardiness. In a letter to…
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on Tuesday moved more than 400 impounded vehicles from its Pasig City holding area to a site some 130 kilometers away, in Tarlac City, hoping the transfer would compel the owners…
Militant group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) on Monday said its recently filed request before the Department of Transportation (DOTr) will test President Rodrigo Duterte’s Executive Order (EO) on Freedom of Information (FOI). The statement came days after Malacañang released…
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) is indefinitely suspending the truck ban conduct passes it earlier issued. MMDA general manager Tim Orbos on Monday said that starting Sept. 8 truck firms and operators should abide by the…
