SENATOR Sherwin Gatchalian on Monday proposed a toll fee holiday at the South Luzon Expressway {SLEx) to the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) amid the daily traffic gridlock along the northbound portion of SLEx, the main artery connecting…
THE recently released Asian Development Outlook 2019 Update of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) found Metro Manila to be the “most congested natural city in Asia with a population greater than five million.” ADB director for macroeconomics,…
NEITHER the government nor ambulance companies keep count of how many medical patients die in Metro Manila traffic each year, but emergency medical workers in the city have many horror stories, news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoted…
THE simultaneous implementation of some government “Build Build Build” infrastructure projects which intend to address the capital region’s worsening traffic problems are diverting vehicles to already clogged alternate routes, said a report published Monday in the Philippine…
The Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is crafting a regional development plan (RDP) in line with the National Economic and Development Authority’s (Neda) Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2017-2022. “We have completed a first draft for NCR’s sectoral…
Edsa nowadays is a sweltering pit of despair from which few motorists escape. Those who do are often found voicing their grievances on social media, in fits of apoplectic rage. Travel time on this artery has…
METRO Manila’s traffic crisis did not arrive like a thief in the night. It has been predicted by several studies—stretching back to the 1980s. Very few of the things needed to avoid the crisis got implemented in…
Two government agencies are “seriously considering” the deployment of double-decker buses along Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (Edsa) to address the “horrendous traffic congestion” in Metro Manila. The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and the Philippine National…
The Philippines has another world record on its belt as Metro Manila is reported as having the worst city traffic in the world, the results of the first “Global Driver Satisfaction Index” (GDSI) by traffic and navigation…
Bribing traffic enforcers may not get violating drivers out of trouble this time. The Philippine National Police vowed to apprehend motorists who will be caught offering bribe money to cops to get away with a traffic violation.…
