The government can act on the crippling traffic congestion in Metro Manila and other urban centers even before Congress approves a bill seeking to grant President Duterte emergency powers to address the traffic crisis, Sen. Grace Poe…
RESIDENTS of Metro Manila’s upscale residential villages where most of the country’s most powerful families reside are worried because of the traffic situation. No, they are not worried about getting stuck in traffic, per se. But they…
At least four persons were added to the list of casualties in the administration’s controversial antidrug war, among them a woman identified by police as the sister of movie star Maritoni Fernandez. The woman, Ma. Aurora Moynihan,…
“Our state of mind is such, because traffic is a deplorable reality.” This was how Senator Grace Poe responded on Wednesday to Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade’s reported remark that the Filipinos’ “state of mind” worsens the country’s…
The Duterte administration has unveiled a P1-trillion nationwide pipeline of railway projects, most of which will be located in Luzon and Metro Manila where traffic congestion was at its worst, apart from urban centers in Cebu and…
The Senate committee on public services chaired by Senator Grace Poe has put on hold deliberations on the proposed emergency powers for President Rodrigo Duterte pending a detailed list of projects that the government would implement to address…
President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday fired all presidential appointees in government by declaring their posts vacant. Citing continuing corruption in government “especially in the regulatory agencies,” Duterte told the appointees: “Consider your positions vacant as of this…
To make its roadways breathe, Metro Manila needs 3,000 more kilometers of roads―that’s the distance between Manila and Tokyo. There are 15,000 vehicles at any given hour on Edsa, mostly crawling at 5 kilometers per hour (kph),…
No parking slot, no car. Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian on Thursday pushed for the passage of his bill that would require proof of parking space before any vehicle purchase, a measure he said he believed would help ease…
The emergency powers being sought for President Rodrigo Duterte would be used to create a “synchronized and uniform” traffic system with one authority, and allow the use of private roads such as those in subdivisions, among others,…
