Taking advantage of the relatively low number of vehicles plying the streets of Metro Manila during Holy Week, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will undertake road repairs starting midnight of Holy Thursday until Easter Sunday in various parts of the Metro, including portions of the 23-kilometer Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (Edsa), the country’s busiest thoroughfare.
MANDAUE City traffic officials were asked to re-route multi-cab passenger vehicles to the new public market following road repairs that have cost vendors their customers.
LIGHT traffic on a holiday yesterday reduced the impact of the first day of closure of one lane of the UN Avenue near the foot of the Marcelo Fernan Bridge in Mandaue City.
BAGUIO CITY—Funds being allocated to improve mountain roads in the Cordillera may not be enough to meet targets set by the government for 2016, public works officials said. Edilberto Carabbacan, Cordillera director of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), and Virgilio Bautista, cochair of the Regional Development Council (RDC), gave Socioeconomic Planning Secretary [...]
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) on Thursday warned the public to expect heavy traffic in eight Metro Manila major thoroughfares due to road repairs starting Friday.
BAGUIO CITY—Contractors blamed for delayed repairs of national roads last year have been identified and reprimanded, a Department of Public Works and Highways official said on Monday. Two government-accredited firms are under investigation, although they have not been blacklisted because they are involved in other government projects, said Ireneo Gallato, Baguio district engineer. Local officials [...]
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)-National Capital Region on Friday advised motorists to expect a traffic buildup in some sections of national roads in Metro Manila that will undergo repair and improvement work over the weekend.
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)-National Capital Region on Friday advised motorists to expect a traffic buildup in some sections of national roads in Metro Manila that will undergo repair and improvement work over the weekend.
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority has approved 19 road and drainage repair projects in Metro Manila and says it has taken measures to help ensure that motorists do not get stuck in traffic as a result of the repair work.
With road repairs along the MacArthur Highway (Manila North Road) in Tarlac and Pangasinan and along Marcos Highway linking La Union and Benguet, it now takes between eight and 10 hours to reach Baguio City from Metro Manila. And once tourists reach the summer capital, they have to bear with traffic jams due to more [...]
BAGUIO City—An official of the Department of Public Works and Highways said heavy rains dumped by Typhoon “Mina” and unabated monsoon rains have forced contractors to suspend the repairs of national roads in the city. Cesario Rillera, a DPWH engineer, said the DPWH could not yet determine when work on these roads would resume although [...]
MANILA, Philippines–Motorists are advised to use alternate routes as major roads will undergo repair over the long weekend (August 27 to 30), the Metro Manila Development Authority said on Friday. In a statement, MMDA said repair and maintenance on the following roads will be done by Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) on the [...]
The city government has been flooded with complaints over road concreting projects that were begun at the start of the rainy season and which slowed down traffic in key parts of Baguio.
