Although traffic still lingers on EDSA during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur P. Tugade insisted that travel time along the country's main thoroughfare has already improved. (Jansen Romero/ File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) In his speech...
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will never whitewash the wrongful acts of its traffic personnel. MMDA traffic czar Edison "Bong" Nebrija (Photo from Nebrija's Facebook) The agency's EDSA traffic czar, Edison "Bong" Nebrija gave this guarantee to his followers on Facebook...
After a two-week investigation, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has decided to sack the two traffic enforcers who went viral online for extorting P1,000 from a motorist-couple along EDSA last month. (Photo from Miriel Custodio's Facebook) It was only last April 26 when MMDA...
Six areas in Quezon City will be closed to traffic from Friday, May 7, to Sunday, May 9, to give way to road repairs of the Department of Public Works and Highways. According to the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), the areas that will undertake re-blocking and repairs are the...
More government precautions are being planned to avert the spread of the deadly coronavirus surge in India to the Philippines. The government is studying whether or not to expand the travel ban to other countries with high passenger traffic from India in a bid to limit the spread of the...
This feel-good story is for those who doubt the goodness in the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority's (MMDA) traffic enforcers. The two honest MMDA traffic enforcers. (Photos courtesy of EDSA STTZ) Two of them, Jaypee Cabatuando and Floramae Suegay, found a lost wallet containing P11,000 in...
The two Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) traffic enforcers who allegedly extorted P1,000 from a motorist-couple have now been placed under preventive suspension for 90 days. MMDA Chairman Benhur Abalos handed down the order on Monday, April 26, even as the two Traffic Discipline...
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has identified the two traffic enforcers who allegedly extorted P1,000 from a couple over the weekend. "Nakita na po namin (We've seen it)," lawyer Vic Trinidad, Director III of the MMDA's Metropolitan Public Safety Office, said in an interview...
A Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) official has practically exonerated the traffic enforcer who unwittingly triggered a public debate on motorbiking rules last March 5 when he ticketed a couple for a "dress code" violation. (MANILA BULLETIN) "As far as we are concerned, wala po...
The NLEX-SCTEX toll plazas reported light traffic in recent weeks, even during the holiday rush, after the operator carried out measures to control congestion. NLEX Corporation is still enhancing its Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system to enable faster reading, upgrading antennas and...
The North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) can handle the holiday travel rush, now at par with pre-pandemic levels. Operator NLEX Corporation and mother company, Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (MPTC) are confident about the system improvements they have made to control congestion at NLEX for the...
