The Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Manila International Airport Authority ( MIAA), in a statement issued over the weekend, questioned the veracity of a "recent study" ranking the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) as "the world's worst business class airport." "The 'study' shows...
The Department of Transportation's (DOTr) Railways sector will complete its target projects before the term of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte ends, officials said. These include opening the extended service of the Philippine National Railways (PNR) in Southern Luzon; the Light Rail Transit...
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has extended the free rides on the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) Line 3 until June 30, 2022 throughout the railway's operating hours from 4:40AM to 10:10PM. The MRT3 free ride program has benefited 15,730,000 passengers from March 28 to May 24, 2022, with P286...
The Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) activated Friday, May 6, the "Oplan Biyaheng Ayos" to ensure safe, reliable, and comfortable transportation of the public for the national and local elections on Monday, May 9. (File photo: MIAA) Oplan Byaheng Ayos, which will run from May 5 to 10,...
Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade, signed Thursday, May 5, the P17.75 BIllion contract for two stations and tunnels of the P488 Billion Metro Manila Subway Phase 1, Contract Package 104 (CP104), with the Tokyu-Tobishima Megawide Joint Venture (TTM-JV). 81748 The CP104...
The Department of Transportation ( DOTr) completed a total of 246 airport projects from 2016 to 2022 under the Duterte administration. DOTr alone managed to complete three times the previous administration's output of 55 airport projects, confirmed DOTr Assistant Secretary for Aviation and Airports...
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has extended free rides for the public at the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3) until May 30, 2022 from 4:40AM to 10:10PM, the state agency announced Wednesday, April 27. The DOTr's free ride program, meant to assist commuters hard hit by fuel and commodity...
The structural works for the Balagtas Station of the P106-billion Philippine National Railways (PNR) Clark 1 (Tutuban-Malolos) is now 100 per cent complete, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) announced Friday, April 22. 79338 The project is the first segment of the North-South Commuter...
Reelectionist Senator Joel Villanueva on Wednesday, April 20 called on the Department of Transportation (DOTr), Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB), and Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to reconsider their decision to implement a new provincial bus schedule. The...
The pandemic has set back the opening of the P488-billion Metro Manila Subway by three years, to 2025, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) has confirmed. Originally, target start date for partial operations for the subway's first three stations from Valenzuela – Mindanao Avenue Station,...
Senators on Thursday lauded the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for the “timely response” of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to allow the continued distribution of fuel subsidy to the public sector. “The order to allow the resumption of fuel subsidy distribution to public utility...
The pandemic took away two years of a six-year term of implementing projects and the administration's "Build, Build, Build" (BBB) infrastructure program "could have gotten a very excellent rating" without it. media This was the assessment made by Department of Transportation (DOTr) Undersecretary...
