SAY WHAT you will about the unconventional ways of the Duterte administration, but at least one conglomerate is happy about how things are moving along. Six years after putting its proposal on the table, Metro Pacific Investment…
“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…
Transportation assistant secretary for communications Cherie Mercado-Santos took exception to the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s article on Secretary Arthur Tugade’s urging Filipinos to shed the mindset of using “traffic” as an excuse for tardiness. In a letter to…
IT’S ALL in the mind, a transport official said of the country’s traffic situation. It’s the Filipinos’ “state of mind” that actually worsens the country’s traffic situation, Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade maintained on Tuesday, adding that using…
THE METROPOLITAN Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is indefinitely suspending the truck ban conduct passes it earlier issued. MMDA general manager Tim Orbos on Monday said that starting Sept. 8 truck firms and operators should abide by the…
THE SENATE is poised to expedite deliberations on the proposal to grant President Duterte emergency powers in order to address the traffic crisis, targeting its passage before the Christmas rush, provided that safeguards against abuse are put…
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has announced changes in some of the intersections and segments of EDSA. The MMDA quotes the Inter-Agency Council on Traffic (i-ACT) Traffic Advisory: The i-ACT through the PNP-HPG, MMDA, LTO, LTFRB and…
WITHOUT doubt, shopping malls are big contributors to Metro Manila’s traffic problem because of private and public vehicles that take shoppers and mall goers to and from them. And the bigger the mall, the bigger the traffic…
SHOULD Pasig City’s partial implementation of the odd-even traffic scheme on one of its busy roads work out, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) may consider reimplementing it again in the metropolis. “The solution to traffic needs…
