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Is there any basis for Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmena’s warning that the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project would be shelved in favor of the Light Railway Transit (LRT) project being lobbied by Presidential Assistant for the…
With the traffic congestion in Metro Cebu still far from resolution, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s suggestion to use buses to transport commuters to and from the Mandaue–Mactan bridge could prove useful if the city governments of…
Cebu City officials are looking forward to Congress granting emergency power to President Rodrigo Duterte to solve the traffic problems in Metro Manila and other areas in the country like Metro Cebu. But Rafael Yap, Cebu City…
Here are some of the things I think we’d all like to see done real soon, like this year. It will need President Duterte’s determination to force bureaucrats to perform and Congress to act with dispatch. If…
If President Rodrigo Duterte would approve it by the end of the year, work on a big-time infrastructure project in Cebu would start on the later part of next year. Efren Carreon, regional director of the National…
CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña said he has no problems with President Rodrigo Duterte’s plan to build a Light Rail Transit (LRT) system in Cebu. “Who am I to challenge the president? So long as we don’t…
WHILE plans for the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project in Cebu City are already underway, an Arizona-based educator said he thinks the transport scheme isn’t viable here. Dr. Douglas Webster, a professor of East Asian Urbanization in…
Whenever I take a taxi ride, I’m always reminded of a 1991 film by the late film legend, Fernando Poe Jr., entitled “May Isang Tsuper Ng Taxi.” In one scene, Poe’s taxi driver character had just brought…
There is a lot of anticipation, frustration even, from Cebuanos over the long delayed implementation of the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit project. However, there is a need to educate stakeholders on what BRT actually is since it…
Last Wednesday we talked about two of the three main bottlenecks in resolving the country’s transportation crisis (“A crisis in public transportation”, page 10, July 6, 2016 issue of Cebu Daily News—eds), namely the procurement process and…
Perhaps the most interesting news for traffic managers and motorists in Cebu last week (other than the heavy downpour that caused massive traffic here in the metropolis) was Senate Bill No. 11 filed by Sen. Franklin Drilon…
THE Cebu City government plans to conduct more forums to help the public understand the concept of the BRT or the Bus Rapid Transit, which is projected to be completed by 2019. Lawyer Rafael Yap, project manager…
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