Complaints about costly parking fees in Manila’s Chinatown have prompted Mayor Alfredo Lim to sign a memorandum imposing lower parking rates, a few weeks after a meter system was launched in the district.
The country’s first metered parking system was launched in Manila’s Chinatown on Friday, lending a touch of First World technology in a city of extreme contrasts where luxury cars and sport utility vehicles compete for space with jeepneys, pedicabs, and even the horse-drawn kalesa.
Parking on newlypaved sidewalks along Osmeña Boulevard is prohibited to avoid damaging new red bricks laid there, Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama said yesterday.
The developer of the multi-billion peso Ciudad development in barangay Apas, Cebu City is being questioned by environment officials on its previous assurance that no trees will be cut to give way for the project.
A parking dispute led a man to shoot his cousin dead before he turned the gun on himself in Mandaluyong City on Saturday night.
Attention, Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board. There are a lot of “colorum” FX taxis in Parañaque City. They sport green plates and almost all of them are being driven by policemen.—Annie, 32, Parañaque City
A Canadian woman has launched a human rights complaint against the city of Ottawa for refusing to let her to park in front of her home in a historic district, a court spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Downtown parking is premium and space outside City Hall may not be free for long.
The Metro Cebu Bridge Management Board (MCBMB) asked the Mandaue City Council to pass an ordinance regulating the parking of vehicles under the Marcelo Fernan Bridge. The call came after Regional Maritime Unit (RMU) 7 Chief Police Senior Supt. Eduardo Garado showed a photo of vehicles and vans that parked in the vacant lot under [...]
Good news for elderly residents of Quezon City who are vehicle owners. With the recent signing of city ordinance that took effect on August 8, senior citizens are now exempted from paying parking fees in city-based establishments. According to Mayor Herbert Bautista, the exemption was “part of the continuing benefits for [the] elderly in the [...]
Here comes a well-deserved perk for the elderly—reduced parking fees. A Quezon City councilor is pushing for the exemption of senior citizens from paying the initial rate upon parking in commercial establishments, malls, and other similar venues. The measure, which is awaiting its third and final reading, is an offshoot of Republic Act 9994, or [...]
