Senator Grace Poe has urged the government to provide bikes for vulnerable and poor workers as a form of subsidy to make commute easier and safer for them amid the coronavirus outbreak. People use bikes as an alternative means of transportation in Metro Manila. Public utility vehicles continue to...
The “Bike for Livelihood” program is doling out over half a thousand bikes nationwide, mostly to those who lost their jobs to the COVID-19 pandemic. Metro Pacific Investments Foundation (MPIF), along with the MVP Group of Companies, recently launched the program in partnership with Gretchen...
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) said on Tuesday, June 1, that it will complete the construction of about 523 kilometers (km) of bike lanes in Metro Manila, Cebu and Davao within the month of June. The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) creates bike lanes along major roads in the...
Workers scrape excess paint on the newly-demarcated bicycle lane in downtown Davao City, (Keith Bacongco) In order to decongest public transport as well as to promote a greener and healthier way to get around, the government has been busy building and setting up bike lanes throughout the country....
Cyclists in Quezon City who have lost their bicycles will get help from the local government as it launched a voluntary bike registration program. Jansen Romero/MANILA BULLETIN Under the program, which is in line with the city's Ordinance no. 2988-2020, the Green Transport Office - Bicycle and...
What's worse than a "kamote" rider? A defiant kamote rider who runs away from enforcers, that's what. MMDA traffic czar Edison "Bong" Nebrija (Photo from Nebrija's Facebook) "It’s becoming very frequent that we are experiencing violators running away from enforcers," Metropolitan Manila...
Transport advocacy group Move As One Coalition and the Department of Health (DOH) have emphasized the importance of having safer roads work in tandem with active transport on the occasion of Road Safety Month. (Photo by Şahin Sezer Dinçer / Unsplash) Citing how the current health crisis has...
For decades, Harley-Davidson (H-D) has been the go-to brand for cruiser motorcycles, whether large, small, subtle or ostentatious. Unfortunately, for everything else, customers turned to other brands. Yet Harley-Davidson hopes to change all that with the first-ever Pan America. Harley calls the Pan...
So-called "Kamote Riders"--riders who have wanton disregard for the law and rules of the road--are quite a common sight on EDSA. But this particular kamote rider did something so egregious that Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) traffic czar Edison Bong Nebrija couldn't help but make...
Easily one of BMW Motorrad’s most popular line of motorcycles is the GS. Standing for Gelände/Straße (on and off-road), the very first model debuted in 1980 in the form of the R80 G/S. The R80 featured innovative technology like the use of the shaft drive, and was later entered into the...
The Bayanihan spirit that started in Maginhawa St. Quezon City, initiated by Ann Patricia Non, created a ripple effect in less than a week. Thus, it came without a surprise why community pantries or bodega ng bayan sprouted like mushrooms nationwide. But while many organizers set up tables on their...
(Photo from vitalmtb.com) Red Bull Formation, the world's first all-women freeride mountain bike event makes a comeback this May 24 to June 1 after a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Eight athletes from Canada, New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom, Argentina, and Sweden will...
