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Traffic lights, one lane for trucks on at Katipunan Avenue

Brace yourselves for a traffic-clogged Saturday, as the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) alters the traffic scheme on Katipunan Avenue, a major thoroughfare in Quezon City. The road will be covered by the one-lane restriction for cargo…

Two more weeks of traffic gridlock in Northern Metro Manila seen

If you regularly drive in the Northern part of Metro Manila, brace yourself for more gridlock, similar to what we’ve experienced this week. The imperative to clear the Port of Manila of containers and ship them to…

Traffic at standstill in NLEX-EDSA area

Traffic in the northern part of Metro Manila has been severely clogged since September 3. The main cause seems to be poor traffic management combined with the one-lane policy for trucks heading to the Manila port area.…

Traffic lights back, one-lane rule for trucks on C5

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has reactivated the traffic lights on several C5 intersections, including Calle Industria, Eastwood, Greenmeadows, and Lanuza. The scheme is intended to speed up traffic flow on the arterial road. The intersections…

Magallanes flyover reopens for light vehicles

The southbound lane of the Magallanes Interchange has reopened Monday but only for light vehicles, according to the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), after 10 days of being closed for repairs. The closure had caused heavy traffic…

Traffic lights to replace U-turn slots on Katipunan Avenue

We hope this will not be a case of history repeating itself. To ease heavy traffic on Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will soon reactivate traffic lights in the area and…

Palace overrules LTFRB ruling on colorum trucks

In the end, it was the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA)’s truck ban that prevailed. The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) had been sending conflicting announcements on the cause…

MMDA, Metro mayors unite against LTFRB ‘no apprehension’ policy

The worsening traffic situation in Metro Manila, particularly on C5-Katipunan road has been blamed on the new “no apprehension” policy of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) for “colorum” or illegal trucks and its order…

Who is to blame for the traffic gridlock on C5-Katipunan?

Who is to blame for the traffic gridlock on C5-Katipunan?  The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) figures that the choked traffic on the major road in Quezon Cit is the “ill-fated outcome” of a recent Land Transportation…

MMDA enforcers arrested by cops for ‘kotong’

Quezon City police arrested two traffic constables of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority in an entrapment operation. A driver of a public utility vehicle complained that the MMDA enforcers asked for money in exchange for his confiscated…

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