Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, now a Pampanga representative, is poised to file the proposed “Metro Manila Traffic Crisis Act of 2016,” which seeks to grant President-elect Rodrigo Duterte special powers to address the humongous traffic problem in…
The city government of Makati announced that it will implement road closures and traffic rerouting on June 22, Wednesday, in line with its participation in the Metro Manila Shake Drill and 2nd Quarter National Simultaneous Earthquake Drill,…
MANILA — The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is counting on more residents to participate in Wednesday’s metro-wide shake drill, or the simulation of emergency response, rescue and relief operations in case of a 7.2-magnitude earthquake in…
A NO-PARKING policy and a new traffic scheme expected to benefit students of Saint Pedro Poveda College on Edsa, Quezon City, will be implemented starting July 4 to ease traffic in the area during the morning rush…
Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. on Tuesday said he supported the granting of emergency powers to President-elect Rodrigo Duterte to solve what has evolved into a traffic crisis in Metro Manila. In an interview at the sidelines of…
STARTING today (Tuesday), shuttle buses will pick up Ateneo High School students, teachers and personnel at three designated drop-off points and bring them to the campus free of charge as part of efforts to reduce traffic on…
DAVAO CITY, Philippines—The Duterte administration plans to declare a “traffic crisis” in Mega Manila and seek emergency powers that will address in the next two years what incoming Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade said was a problem that…
TO REDUCE the volume of cars on Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City on school days, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU) will ink a memorandum of agreement (MOA) on Monday to…
A MOTORISTS’ rights group on Thursday urged the incoming Duterte administration to immediately flex its muscles in addressing the horrible traffic problem in the metropolis. In a statement, the Road Users Protection Advocates (Rupa) said the worsening…
IT’S A MALACAÑANG prerogative that can be invoked when the country is in a state of war or a crippling nationwide calamity. But one of the key allies of incoming President Rodrigo Duterte is in favor of…
