It’s about time that there is a single ticketing system (STS) in traffic management in the National Capital Region which is composed of 16 cities and one municipality. The STS aims to harmonize the “existing laws on traffic enforcement and management in Metro Manila, which includes...
Local enforcers of all local government units (LGUs) in the National Capital Region can still issue traffic violations to erring motorists as the Supreme Court ruling that prohibits them to do so is not yet final and executory, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) clarified on...
MMDA chairman Don Artes explains how rainwater catchment system works as part of the measures to cushion the impact of El Niño in Metro Manila. The Metro Manila Council led by San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora (right) has already passed a resolution focusing on water conservation measures....
Muntinlupa Mayor Ruffy Biazon said it is about time to rationalize the use of e-vehicles (electric vehicles) in the country in light of an increase in road accidents. On Feb. 28, the Metro Manila Council (MMC), to which Biazon belongs, passed a resolution banning e-trikes (electric tricycles)...
Mayors of Metro Manila agreed on Wednesday, Feb. 28, to ban e-scooters and e-trikes on major thoroughfares in the National Capital Region (NCR) amid rampant traffic violations and accidents involving the small electric vehicles. The decision was stipulated in a resolution of the Metro Manila...
An e-trike traveling along the South Luzon Expressway. (photo from the video provided by the MMDA) Viral videos of complaints against e-bikes and e-trikes , including an elementary pupil driving one of them on a national road and their presence on major thoroughfares that include the South Luzon...
Mayors from Metro Manila are now in Los Angeles, California for a study tour facilitated by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA). Muntinlupa Mayor Ruffy Biazon, in a Facebook post on Jan. 31, said they visited the Los Angeles Emergency Operations Center where they were given a...
The national government is ready to respond to any disruption of public transportation on Tuesday, Jan. 16, during the conduct of a transport strike and protest action by transport group Manibela from Quezon City to Manila. But Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman Don Artes...
Metro Manila mayors were tasked to come up with an inventory of informal settler families (ISFs) and government-owned open spaces in their respective areas as the national government embarks on the large-scale in-city mass housing for poor families in the National Capital Region (NCR). Department...
Atty. Don Artes, 2023 Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) chairman, is all smiles these days. And for good reason. The 49th edition of the film fest has already earned a whopping 700 million pesos in gross receipts. This is way, way better than the 2022 MMFF, which only earned 500 million pesos. And...
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has started clearing the route of the Black Nazarene procession, or Traslacion, in Manila to ensure unhampered religious activity which is expected to draw around 2.5 million devotees on Tuesday, Jan. 9. MMDA chairman Don Artes said the...
An apparently drunk MMDA enforcer tries to fix his motorcycle after getting involved in an accident along the southbound of EDSA Busway Main Avenue in Quezon City recently as seen in a video footage uploaded by the Department of Transportation on Dec. 31, 2023. Two bus commuters were injured in the...
