Not only did the odd-even scheme fail in the past, it does not also give assurance it could resolve the perennial traffic problem on major thoroughfares in Metro Manila, Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III said yesterday.
Traffic problems in Metro Manila have cost the government $2 billion in economic losses. Citing a study made by the World Bank, Chairman Francis Tolentino of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on Wednesday said that the losses could be recouped in part by the odd-even scheme for vehicles that he has decided to revive.
Manila was listed as one of 10 worst cities in the world to drive in. According to MSN.com, Manila along with Rome, Mumbai, Paris, Beijing, Seoul, and others were not ideal places for driving. The site told drivers to expect in Manila triple-lane changes, failure to signal, and breezing through red lights.
The absence of a national road safety masterplan and non-coordination among nine concerned government agencies for the proliferation of land traffic accidents that kill and injure countless people across the country every year, private think tank Forensic Law and Policy Strategies Inc. (Forensic Solutions) said yesterday.
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on Wednesday has released the list of areas where the number coding scheme will be implemented in the metropolis—some have their own window hours while others have not. This was made after MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino suspended all exemptions to the Unified Vehicular Volume Reduction Program (UVVRP) through the…
Once more with feeling, who is ever going to put some discipline (just some) on bus drivers careering down our main thoroughfares i.e. EDSA, NLEX, SLEX, Taft Avenue, Quezon Avenue, Commonwealth Avenue and everywhere else?
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has warned erring contractors of local utility companies they will be arrested if they are found unnecessarily causing traffic jams along Edsa and other major thoroughfares due to their unscheduled road repairs and digging works.
September 18 –
International Equal Pay Day
“Increase wages now,
more than other cost items.
For widespread, practical equality!”
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against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association.
Accept the National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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October –
Monthly Observances:
Industry and Commerce Safety Month
National Statistics Month
Local Government Month
Consumer Welfare Month
Cooperative Month
National Quality and Productivity Improvement Month
National Health and Wellness Tourism Month
National Indigenous Peoples Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Elderly Filipino Week
Week 2: National Health Education Week
Local Government Week
National Mental Health Week
October 17-23:
National Week for Overcoming Extreme Poverty
October 18 – 24:
United Nations Week
Last Week:
Nurses’ Week
Consumers’ Protection Week
Week of the 4th Sunday:
Barrio Farmers’ Week
Daily Observances:
First Monday (Oct 4): Universal Children’s Day i
n the Philippines
Oct 5: National Teachers’ Day
Oct 10: Local Government Day
Third Thursday (Oct 14): Conflict Resolution Day
Oct 21: Tenants’ Emancipation day
Oct 24: United Nations Day
Oct 29: National Indigenous People’s Thanksgiving Day
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