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(Eagle News)–Motorists should expect a “traffic slowdown” along several Metro Manila roads from May 10 to 12, the Department of Transportation said. According to the DOTr, the slowdown is expected along the following due to the transport of the tunnel boring machine (TBM) used for the Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP) from the Manila Harbour Center to the MMSP’s Camp Aguinaldo Station: Port/ R-10 (between 10 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.) C3 Road (between 10:30 p.m. […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Transportation has warned motorists of a traffic slowdown in several areas in Metro Manila between Feb. 2 and 5. The agency said these roads may be affected with the Metro Manila Subway Project’s (MMSP) Tunnel Boring Machine expected to be transported from the Manila Harbour Center Port to D. Julia Vargas Avenue in Ortigas Center. 5th Avenue (between 11 P.M. – 12 M.N.) Araneta Avenue (between 1 A.M. – 2 […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Koko Pimentel has urged Congress to revisit the proposal to grant emergency powers to President Rodrigo Duterte to address what he said was the worsening traffic in Metro Manila. Pimentel, however, stopped short of saying the powers should be granted to the President, who had requested for the same upon assumption of office. This even as he acknowledged that those emergency powers may allow the government to immediately enter into projects that can […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Grace Poe on Friday revived her call for Congress to pass a bill that would grant President Rodrigo Duterte emergency powers to address vehicular congestion in Metro Manila. Poe did this after the Japan International Cooperation Agency said around P3.5 billion per day were lost due to traffic in the country, a figure that was higher than the P2.4 billion JICA estimated was lost per day in 2012. According to Poe, the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Renewing his call for emergency powers to alleviate Metro Manila traffic, President Rodrigo Duterte during his First State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday said that it was up to the Congress to grant what he described “the most urgent” solution to commuters’ woes. “The worsening traffic situation can be addressed if congress will also grant Emergency Powers,” Duterte said He, however, said that if the congress will […]
