Inter-agency cooperation is vital to provide students ample supply of transportation while ensuring their safety from Covid-19, Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Jaime J. Bautista announced on Friday, July 15. The transport chief met with concerned government agencies to ensure...
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) pledged to support green transport projects and electric vehicles throughout the country as sustainable alternatives for the Filipino riding public. DOTr Secretary Jaime J. Bautista made the commitment Thursday, July 14, during the launch of the first...
With the expected surge in passenger demand in the opening of face-to-face (F2F) classes this year, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) is calibrating its existing land transport programs. Hence, Transportation Secretary Jaime J. Bautista directed Road Transport and Infrastructure...
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has directed the officials of the Department of Energy (DOE) to submit a comprehensive report on oil price swings as well as the cost impacts of rising fuel prices to the public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers and the agricultural sector as basis for potential...
Davao City 1st district Rep. Paolo Duterte says there's much that needs to be done to cure the problems of the country's ailing public transport sector. The MRT-3 (Facebook) In a statement, the second-term congressman reckoned that "long-term solutions" must be implemented to the sector; these...
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has inherited close to a thousand infrastructure projects from the Duterte administration. However, the biggest of these are still to be completed, like the P488-billion Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP), one of the Philippines’ largest infrastructure undertaking...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma On the same day that this newspaper headlined last week the naming of the next Transportation Secretary, a front-page photo also showed long lines of parked taxis that had stopped operating because of the unabated series of fuel price increases. Transportation...
Quezon City 5th district Rep. Alfred Vargas has called on the national government to address the shortage of public transportation, emphasizing that the government has not effectively addressed the transportation crisis. House Social Services Committee chair Quezon City Rep. Alfred Vargas (Photo...
House Deputy Speaker and Davao City 3rd district Rep. Isidro Ungab has backed President-elect Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s preference to give subsidies to the beleaguered transport sector instead of doing away with excise taxes on fuel amid skyrocketing petroleum prices. (File photo/ Ali...
REGULAR commuters in Iloilo City still scramble to get rides, especially rush hour, as the city government implements a modernized transportation that is supposed to phase out old jeepneys and replace them with mini-buses. (Tara Yap) ILOILO CITY – Progressive group Bayan Panay is calling on the...
A coalition of twenty-four transport groups called "Magkaisa" is strongly recommending to the incoming Marcos administration to explore technology and intelligent transport systems to improve the commuter experience. The group urged president-elect Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to address the...
Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go has urged both the current and incoming administrations to work together to address the many offshoot problems resulting from runaway fuel prices. Go, chairman of the Senate Health and Demography Committee, said it is necessary to implement measures to...