Bridge work starts, motorists fume
MOTORISTS coming to and from Lapu-Lapu City started feeling the inconvenience caused by the rehabilitation of the old Mandaue-Mactan bridge that started early yesterday morning.
MOTORISTS coming to and from Lapu-Lapu City started feeling the inconvenience caused by the rehabilitation of the old Mandaue-Mactan bridge that started early yesterday morning.
Pockets of road construction projects along the Maharlika Highway between Pagbilao and Atimonan towns have stranded hundreds of motorists since Tuesday dawn, police said.
The 9-kilometer stretch of the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEx) in this eastern Pangasinan town is about 75 percent complete, but none of the farmers whose lands were used for the highway has received full payments for their property, a project consultant said.
MAYOR Jonas Cortes of Mandaue City vowed to build more schools and prioritize road and drainage rehabilitation next year after the city council approved his P1.6-billion budget uncut last Wednesday.
Temperature readings in the summer capital have started to drop as the peak tourism season starts, prompting businessmen here to urge contractors to finish repairs on roads leading to Baguio before the Christmas season and the city’s flower festival early next year.
IT’S final and official. The Cebu City government has to pay at least P44 million to the Rallos family whose lot in Banilad Estate was expropriated in 1963 for a road project. In Sept. 23, 2011, order, Judge James Stewart Ramon Himalaloan of the Regional Trial Court Branch 9 gave the go signal for the [...]
Na-obserbahan si Christian Lucky Dalangin nga mapahiyumon gihapon samtang gidala ug gipasakaan kini ug kasong parricide sa korte niadtong Sabado sa pagpatay sa iyang inahan nga si Rubirosa Mecares Tenchavez pinaagi sa pag-gulgol sa liog ug milubong sa iyang inahan sulod sa ilang panimay diha sa Maria Gochan Subdivision sa Barangay Mambaling ning dakbayan. Ambot [...]
AT least 58 families occupying Aviola Street in barangay Tejero, Cebu City were reminded to demolish part of their shanties to give way to road restoration. They were given 10 days to comply with the notice issued last Friday. Despite this, Councilor Alvin Dizon asked Mayor Michael Rama to first consult the affected families before [...]
Heavy equipment began leveling burnt structures in barangay Tejero to prepare for opening a 10-meter-wide access road.

LOS ANGELES—When the sun rises above Los Angeles on Saturday, residents in this car-dependent, traffic-choked city will see a rare sight: a 10-mile (16-kilometer) stretch of one of America’s busiest highways turned into a virtual ghost road. Interstate 405, a highway normally so clogged that locals like to joke that its name is shorthand for [...]
Citing the need to protect the environment, a regional trial court here on Friday ordered the Canadian mining company TVI Resources to halt its road construction project and similar activities in Bayog, Zamboanga del Sur.
With traffic expected to become much heavier at the Quezon Avenue-Araneta Avenue intersection starting Wednesday, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) yesterday reminded motorists to take alternate routes. Several lanes of Quezon Avenue will be closed as the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) begins the construction of a four-lane underpass in the area. [...]