San Miguel Corporation (SMC) and the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) formally opened the final section of the 89.21-km Tarlac Pangasinan La Union Expressway (TPLEX), completing the four-lane toll road project that will hasten travel…
Road congestion in Metro Manila will significantly ease starting this year with the opening of new expressways, Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar said. Villar promised that 2020 would be the “turning point” in the fight…
METRO Manila to Clark in less than an hour. This is one of the goals in the construction of the North-South Commuter Railway (NSCR), which forms part of the government’s massive infrastructure program. The railway network covering…
THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) disclosed in a May 23 press briefing it approved a $2.75-billion loan — its single largest financing lend-out for an infrastructure project. The loan, according to a May 24 statement released to…
ILOILO CITY — The Duterte administration would surely implement a project to connect three Visayan islands — Panay, Negros and Guimaras — through a bridge network estimated to cost at least P27 billion, according to the National…
Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade is pushing for the Philippine National Railway’s (PNR) Manila-Clark line to be opened in 2020, or a year earlier than expected. Based on the study made by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica),…
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) wants an ambitious subway project for Metro Manila operational before President Duterte’s term ends in 2022, or earlier than initially planned. The project, to be backed by a loan from the Japanese…
Conglomerate San Miguel Corp. has submitted to the Duterte administration a P27-billion unsolicited proposal to build an alternative tollroad that will link Tagaytay to Metro Manila via Cavite and Batangas. The proposed 29-kilometer tollroad called Tanauan-Tagaytay Expressway…
MANILA — The government plans to source from domestic sources two-thirds of the financing for the massive infrastructure projects to be rolled out in the next six years, while state planning agency National Economic and Development Authority…
CEBU CITY—Expect traffic to be heavy along N. Bacalso Avenue and F. Llamas Street here next month when the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) starts the construction of an underpass projected to cut travel time…
