Malacañang has given the go-signal to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to uproot some 3,000 trees to clear the way for a multimillion-dollar program to build “world-class” roads on Samar Island.
Cebu City Rep. Tomas Osmeña yesterday called on public works officials to “cancel” P300 million worth of road improvement projects in his south district. “I will cancel all these projects and funding will go back to the national government. I will not realign,” he said, irked by Mayor Michael Rama’s criticism about lack of [...]
Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama is requiring traffic plans first before any road project by the Department of Public Works and Highways is allowed to start in the city.
THE Tanjay City government is set to construct road concreting and farm-to-market roads in its barangays.
They are willing to sacrifice in order to rebuild their homes.”
Due to its physical configuration, the spatial development of Metro Cebu is linear in form that goes north and south from Cebu City’s central business district (CBD). For so long, one could only travel from Cebu City to the north or south through the old national highway that connects all the cities and towns in Metro Cebu. Now one can go to the north by crossing the new Cansaga Bridge in Mandaue City and following the Tayud provincial road that goes through Consolacion and ends in Liloan. To the south, there is already the familiar South Coastal Road (SCR), which passes through the South Road Properties (SRP). The SCR starts at the area near Pier I in Cebu City, follows the eastern line of the SRP, enters Talisay City and ends at the point when it merges with the old highway to the south in Lawaan, Talisay.
The Commission on Audit (COA) has found deficiencies and signs of overpricing in the Daang Hari-Slex Link Road project of the Alabang-Sto. Tomas Development Inc., (ASDI) a subsidiary of Philippine National Construction Corp.
HE may have settled his feud with an American national, but former Capitol consultant Byron Garcia still has some unfinished business with the Talisay City police.
Over P5 billion worth of locally funded road projects gathered dust in 2010 because the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) failed to perform essential measures needed to complete the projects, the Commission on Audit (COA) reported. At the same time, the Commission On Audit said the DPWH completed only one out of 12 [...]
“Extremely inefficient.” An “unwanted appendage” if road widening is pursued. “Hazardous” to pedestrians near the Collegio dela Inmaculada Concepcion. Cebu City’s traffic management authority yesterday opposed national government plans for two new flyovers in the city in a resolution whose strong language left no doubt about the board’s dim view of building overpasses in two [...]
Motorists should expect heavy traffic at the intersection of G. Araneta and Quezon Avenues in Quezon City as the government begins work next week on a P430—million interchange project, Public Works Secretary Rogelio Singson said yesterday. Singson made the statement after he conducted an inspection of the alternate routes for motorists who would be affected [...]
