Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Sunday, June 2 called on the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) to ensure that operators of the country’s major toll roads will first improve their services before approving and implementing any additional rate hike. Gatchalian made the call after the TRB...
House Deputy Minority Leader and Bagong Henerasyon Rep. Bernadette Herrera on Thursday, March 28 renewed her call for the immediate approval of the “Tollway bill” aimed easing traffic congestion on tollways. House Bill No. 8161, or the proposed “Non-Payment of Toll Fees Act of...
Motorists will soon experience barrierless toll gates on all expressways in Luzon once the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) implements the full cashless transactions by June or July this year. TRB Executive Director Alvin Carullo said they have already started conducting dry-runs for what he calls...
House Deputy Minority Leader Bernadette Herrera has called on the House leadership to fast track the approval of the bill that seeks to improve the country’s road safety measures and ease tollway congestion especially during the peak holiday seasons. The Bagong Henerasyon Party-list...
The Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) has provisionally approved new toll for the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEX) beginning on Tuesday, October 17. In a statement on Friday, October 13, the TRB said the provisionally approved toll had undergone "thorough and meticulous review." "NLEX Corp. had to...
The Department of Finance (DOF) said the government has requested tollway concessionaires and operators to waive the toll fee increase for trucks carrying agricultural goods. Finance Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno said that exempting trucks is one of the government's steps to address the high costs...
(File photo) The Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) announced that the dry-run for the implementation of contactless toll collection already began in select toll plazas beginning Friday, Sept. 1. In an advisory, the TRB said that the dry run of the contactless toll collection through the AutoSweep and...
Senator Grace Poe has filed a resolution seeking an inquiry into the recent flooding that hit parts of the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) that got motorists stuck in traffic for hours. In filing Senate Resolution No. 725, Poe said a Senate inquiry can help “determine whether proper...
Super typhoon “Egay” may have left the country last week but the devastation it left was continuously felt as two more fatalities were reported by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), which brought the death toll to 29 as of Friday, August 4. The NDRRMC said 14...
A lightning strike staged by a truckers' group from Central Luzon at the Anda Circle in Manila with around 30 trucks blocking two lanes of the busy thoroughfare caused a monstrous traffic jam on Friday morning inconveniencing thousands of motorists and commuters. Members of the Central Luzon...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Friday, June 23 urged the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) and the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) management to address the bottlenecks along the expressway. A week since the toll increase in the NLEX took effect, Gatchalian said regular users of the toll road still...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Wednesday, June 14 said only a temporary restraining order (TRO) can stop the toll rate increase on the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX). But it is also possible for the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) to be morally persuaded to defer the plan. “For now the only way to stop...
