traffic

E-trikes coming to Manila

Starting next month, electric tricycles will be plying the streets of Binondo and Malate as part of the Manila City government’s campaign to “combat air pollution and improve the livelihood of tricycle drivers and ‘colorum’ pedicab drivers.”…

Auto industry downplays rise in car ownership as cause of traffic woes

A few days after the Filipino motoring public swarmed to the just-concluded 6th Philippine International Motor Show at the World Trade Center like bees to their hives, it wouldn’t be hard for the ordinary observer to conclude…

MMDA eyes drones for floods, traffic

THE METROPOLITAN Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is looking at having its own eyes in the sky not only to help solve the worsening traffic situation but to also address the perennial flooding problem, especially during the monsoon…

Traffic remedies

In commentaries on and analyses of the horrendous traffic gripping Metro Manila, the government can find not just a few short-term solutions to ease the problem. True, the remedy is the development of an efficient mass transportation…

Skyway bans trucks starting Nov. 15

STARTING on Nov. 15, all trucks will be banned from using Metro Manila’s Skyway in an effort to improve road safety and speed up the flow of traffic on the elevated toll road and the soon-to-open Naia…

Cebu voted world’s worst place to be a driver

Think Metro Manila’s traffic is the worst?  Wait till you get to drive around Cebu City, rated in a recent study as  the “worst place in the world to be a driver.” The Queen City of the…

DOTr to open part of Naia expressway; free toll for a month

MANILA, Philippines — Motorists may get some relief from the usual traffic headache en route the Manila airport as government opens the first phase of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Expressway (Naiax) on Sept. 22, with the toll…

QC defers new traffic scheme

A day after announcing the implementation of a one-way traffic scheme in Barangay South Triangle starting today, Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista decided to  postpone the traffic plan pending the completion of road works in the area.…

Traffic app Waze names Cebu as ‘worst city to drive in’

A Philippine city was tagged as the “worst city to drive in” by Waze, a popular traffic and navigating app used by cab drivers and commuters. Cebu City, the Philippines’ “Queen City of the South,” placed at…

Traffic plan to open village roads worries wealthy residents

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…

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