Two unsolicited tollroad projects valued at more than P100 billion have been proposed to ease road congestion in Metro Manila and nearby provinces. The projects were the 102-kilometer Manila to Quezon Expressway and the 17.7-km Manila to…
Radial Road 10 or R-10, the road traversing the old Smokey Mountain area that is home to thousands of informal settlers in Tondo, Manila, will soon turn into a high-capacity highway, according to the Department of Public…
THE PRESIDENT can be given emergency powers but this was not the only solution to the worsening traffic problem in the country, according to an architect and urban planner. “Of all the proposals I am seeing now,…
DAVAO CITY, Philippines — The contractor of the drainage project in Mandaluyong City that has caused great inconvenience to residents promised to finish the job by September 30 or face public humiliation, Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary…
NOTWITHSTANDING earnest efforts to boost infrastructure investments in recent years, we continue to face a huge gap relative to our own needs, and relative to what our neighbors have already put in place. If many local producers…
Work involving the pierheads of the Skyway Stage 3 (SS3) project will require the closure of some lanes on G. Araneta Avenue in Quezon City today. From 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., only two lanes in the…
BROTHELS are rising near roads being repaired by the public works department—hardly the sort of projects one would associate with President Aquino’s “Daang Matuwid” (Righteous Path). A surge in the number of road and bridge construction and…
WITH traffic expected to grow heavier next month as work starts on the C5 Link Expressway project in Parañaque City, the local government announced on Monday that it would hire 100 additional enforcers to man the flow…
The Manila District Traffic Enforcement Unit has advised motorist that the stretch of UN Avenue from San Marcelino to General Luna Street will be closed from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. today, Tuesday, Dec. 15. MDTEU said…
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.…
