Pampanga bet, staff member hurt in QC road accident
By Julie M. Aurelio
A local candidate in Pampanga and a member of his staff were injured when his sports utility vehicle rammed a concrete barrier in Quezon City early Wednesday morning.
A local candidate in Pampanga and a member of his staff were injured when his sports utility vehicle rammed a concrete barrier in Quezon City early Wednesday morning.
A 54-year-old woman was killed on the spot and her young grandson was injured when a dump truck loaded with gravel crashed into a store in Antipolo City on Saturday afternoon, the authorities said.
The remains of Joana Pizarra, who died in hospital a week after the tragic bus accident in Benguet that also claimed the lives of three of her classmates and two teachers, were brought home here early Friday.
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will be closing parts of Edsa today until tomorrow to give way to activities marking the 27th anniversary of the first People Power Revolution.
Philex Mining Corp. is again being held to account, this time by government foresters, over a road that it allegedly built through a Benguet watershed without first securing the proper clearances, like an environmental compliance certificate (ECC).
Manila Water Company wants to replace its pipelines along the 23-kilometer-long Edsa, a project ahead of the planned road repairs of the Department of Public Works and Highways that may take at most 16 months to be completed.
Two women were killed while 15 other passengers were wounded on Friday night when a passenger jeepney rammed into a parked dump truck in Barangay Magdugo, Toledo City, about 50 kilometers west of here.
Work on the Baguio circumferential road has resumed after being stalled for six months due to a feud between the environment and the public works departments over the removal of trees in a village inside the Camp John Hay reservation.
Environmentalists on Thursday resumed painting human figures and the word “Help” on trees due to be cut by the Department of Public Works and Highways to expand the Manila North Road (MNR) in the cities of Angeles and Mabalacat in Pampanga.
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority is about to open lanes on major roads intended solely for bicycle riders in its bid to promote the two-wheeled vehicle as a popular mode of transportation.
Public Works and Highways Secretary Rogelio Singson ordered the director of the DPWH in Metro Manila to finish ongoing road works in the metropolis ASAP.
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Francis Tolentino said his team is now on their way to a fiscal’s office in Quezon City to file charges against the motorist who allegedly mauled one of his traffic enforcers over the weekend.
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority on Friday reminded groups transporting relief goods by use of trucks that they are exempted from both truck ban and number coding.
