A Palace official on Saturday said suing Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya over the persistent problems hounding the Metro Rail Transit-Line 3 (MRT) was not the answer to the country’s transport woes. Reacting to the pronouncement of…
A case of too many lawyers handling a technical problem. This was how Sen. Grace Poe summed up the situation of the glitch-ridden Metro Rail Transit (MRT). Poe, head of the Senate subcommittee on transportation inquiring into…
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…
Former Metro Rail Transit (MRT) general manager Al Vitangcol III Thursday blamed the media for giving too much attention to the graft case he is facing over the allegedly irregular award of a $1.5-million maintenance contract to…
Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya should make public the newly-signed service contract for the maintenance of the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) 3, according to Sen. Grace Poe. Poe, who has led Senate…
Liberal Party’s (LP) vice presidential bet Leni Robredo came to the defense of LP standard-bearer Mar Roxas, saying it is unfair for the people to blame her running mate for the worsening traffic and the sorry state…
Nothing is improbable, especially when it comes to the Department of Transportation and Communication and the busy Metro Rail Transit Line 3—a situation that appears to be getting messier and messier. It’s been a jam-packed start to…
(Second of five parts) ALL THE NINE cases cited Friday in the first part of this series on breached contracts are devastating in their negative impact on the community. But it would be good to start with…
The mass transit systems in Metro Manila will have shortened operations this holiday season. On December 31, the northbound line of the LRT-1 will operate from 5 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. while the southbound line will operate from…
A new train will be added to the fleet of the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) by February next year, helping alleviate the crush of commuters—but not by much, transportation officials said on Wednesday. The first of 48…
