MMDA to pols: Help us tidy up
By Niña P. Calleja
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chair Francis Tolentino on Wednesday appealed to both winners and losers to help the agency in the post-election cleanup.
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chair Francis Tolentino on Wednesday appealed to both winners and losers to help the agency in the post-election cleanup.
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) started Wednesday a massive cleanup to remove campaign materials that littered Metro Manila during the campaign period.
Instead of saving his life, the evasive action a man took ended up killing him the other day on Payatas Road, Quezon City.
A two-way traffic scheme will be imposed along the Domestic Road in Pasay City starting Friday in anticipation of possible heavy traffic that may be caused by the impending construction of the EDSA-Taft flyover, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority official said Thursday.
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has advised motorists on what areas to avoid Wednesday in anticipation of rallies marking Labor Day.
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has advised motorists of areas to avoid May 1 (Wednesday) in anticipation of Labor Day rallies.
It’s now a must for operators of heavy vehicles carrying cement to put up signs warning other motorists to keep a safe distance, a new regulation arising from the accident that killed a pedestrian and injured eight others last week.
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority is proposing that concrete mixer trucks be reclassified as “dangerous” vehicles, following the death of a college student crushed to death under such a vehicle in Quezon City on Tuesday.
They often come within inches of passing vehicles as they tend to the plants or wield a broom. But on some unlucky days, they end up down on the curb, hurting and bleeding.
That’s shorthand for daily 30-minute “time-outs” that Metropolitan Manila Development Authority authorized on Monday. Blistered by the sun, traffic cops to street sweepers may dash for the shade in shifts.
We are very much concerned about the safety of our personnel. This is the least thing we can do about the extremely hot weather that may cause serious illness among our traffic enforcers and street sweepers.—Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chair Francis Tolentino, as he assures the public that the so-called “heat stroke breaks” for MMDA field workers won’t affect the quality of their services.
The next time you see a traffic constable leaving his post by the side of the road, don’t be too quick to accuse of him of deserting his station. He may just be taking a “heat stroke break.”
A fake traffic constable was arrested by real enforcers after he was spotted flagging down a sport utility vehicle at the corner of Roxas Boulevard and Kalaw Street in Manila on Monday.
