IF YOU think traffic on Edsa is bad now, wait until the next few months. The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) announced the other day that work on a drainage improvement project on the northbound lane of…
MANILA, Philippines — Web designer Maria Zurbano kisses her three-year-old daughter goodbye and sets out in the pre-dawn darkness for a torturous commute through the Philippine capital. Her ordeal, a return trip of up to six hours…
The contract signing for the Integrated Transport System-South public private partnership project with winning bidder Ayala Land Inc. was called off today due to schedule constraints on the government’s side. Transportation secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya said in…
WITH the construction of the C-5 Link Expressway beginning next month, the Parañaque government warned the public to expect “short-term inconvenience” when traveling on major roads in the city, particularly in the vicinity of the Moonwalk and…
DAVAO CITY, Philippines—Assistant Secretary Gilberto Reyes of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) refuted reports alleging irregularities in the contract to build the 123.5-kilometer Surigao-Davao-Surigao (Lipata)-Agusan del Norte road, which the Japanese government had funded.…
BETTER LATE than never. This best describes the government’s massive mass transit projects, worth P940 billion, being planned or under implementation in Metro Manila as part of efforts to ease congestion beyond the term of President Aquino.…
Sen. Grace Poe blamed the lack of infrastructure for the traffic woes that plague commuters and motorists in Metro Manila, in a speech at a commuter forum at Ateneo de Manila University. “They say that to ease…
With a funding of 9.78 billion yen (about P3.6 billion) from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica), two bridges in Metro Manila—Guadalupe in Makati City and Lambingan in Sta. Ana, Manila—will soon undergo “seismic retrofitting” and rehabilitation…
The Naia Expressway toll road, one of the government’s big-ticket public private partnership deals, will not be available for use by visiting foreign dignitaries during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) Leaders’ Summit in November, its contractor…
Promises, promises—and our venerated BCDA made many of those. It promised just recently for instance that, for once, it would do something good for the country: It would finally turn over the operations of the 94-kilometer toll…
