Tropical storm (TS) "Dante" has claimed two more lives, pushing the total death toll to six as a result, the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC) reported on Friday, June 4. PAGASA tracking of tropical storm Dante (Courtesy of PAGASA) The NDRRMC said a 49-year-old man was...
San Miguel Corp. (SMC) President Ramon Ang will accomplish more as a private individual than if he becomes president of the country, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said on Saturday, May 22. SMC President Ramon Ang and Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. (PCOO/FILE PHOTO/...
A full year since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the country, San Miguel Corporation (SMC) has waived P190.7 million worth of toll fees for medical front liners passing through its expressways. SMC operates the Southern Tagalog Arterial Road (STAR), the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX), the Skyway system,...
Although cash lanes continue to operate, cashless electronic toll collection for motorists using both the Skyway and the South Luzon Expressway surged 85 per cent, San Miguel Corporation (SMC) today (February 16, 2021) reported. Better yet, Autosweep RFID toll collection improved traffic throughput...
San Miguel Corporation (SMC) has waived P156 million toll fees for doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians, and other medical workers using its expressways in the past 10 months. Now, the toll operator will allow 10,400 medical frontliners to use the newly-opened Skyway 3 for free indefinitely,...
Over the holidays, many drivers got to experience the benefit of having an elevated road that bypasses most of Metro Manila. While currently toll free until Feb. 1, 2021, our honeymoon phase with Skyway Stage 3 is nearing its end as a toll fee could be implemented by the next month. A toll matrix...
San Miguel Corporation (SMC) has reached its target 156 Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) stations a week ago (December 29) and will have 100 per cent cashless toll collection on Monday, January 11, SMC president and chief operating officer Ramon S. Ang today (Jan. 5) announced. “Back in...
(NLEX Corporation / MANILA BULLETIN) Motorists passing through NLEX, SCTEX, CAVITEX, C5 Link, and CALAX will enjoy toll-free travel on Christmas and New Year. No toll fees will be collected on all Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (MPTC) expressways from 10:00 p.m. of December 24 to 6:00 a.m. of...
San Miguel Corporation (SMC) will charge no toll fees on all its expressways for Christmas and New Year as part of its toll holiday tradition, president and chief operating officer Ramon S. Ang today ( Dec. 23) announced. On these two days, the operator grants motorists temporary free access to its...
San Miguel Corporation (SMC)'s waived toll fees for medical front liners totalled over P138 million as of Sunday, December 20, nine months after implementing the “no toll fees” policy at all its operating expressways and pledged to extend it "indefinitely". The program, which continued non-stop...
Cashless toll payment, or “full Radio Frequency Identification (RFID in the expressways, after whatever refinement will be mandated, is just the first stage”, according to Rodrigo E. Franco, president and CEO of the Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (MPTC). The final stage is the vision of the...
Over 90 percent of transactions in the country’s toll roads are now via radio frequency identification (RFID) stickers, after transport authorities enforced cashless transactions since the month began, the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) reported. Based on the AutoSweep and Easytrip daily reports, as...
