Government Approves SMC’s Pasig River Expressway

We will soon have an expressway running along the banks of the Pasig River. San Miguel Corporation (SMC) is good to go with its P95-billion Pasig River Expressway (PAREX) project. The government has given its approval to SMC. The latter may now proceed with the 19.37-km and six-lane elevated expressway that will run along the […]

MMDA Urges the Public to Use Mabuhay Lanes as an Alternate Route

The reopening of businesses, collection of toll fees on Skyway 3, and implementation of less strict COVID-19 community quarantine protocols all led to a traffic surge in EDSA recently. To address the problem, The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is urging motorists to use the Mabuhay Lanes as an alternate route to help ease the […]

CLLEX Now Open, Will Be Permanently Free To Use

Motorists can now experience a new freeway here in the country. If like us, you have always been envious of numerous expressways that are free of charge in more developed countries, well this news is for you. The Central Luzon Link Expressway (CLLEX) is now open, and it will be permanently free of charge. Department […]

MMDA Opens Several Motorcycle Shelters For The Rainy Season

Motorcycle riders are growing in numbers day by day. Out on our city roads where everything is made with only cars in consideration, it makes us happy to see that the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has thought of the safety of motorcycle riders, especially during this rainy season. The MMDA has opened several motorcycle […]

SLEX TR-4 is Making Progress Amidst Challenges

San Miguel Corporation, which is currently busy and in the works for the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) Toll Road 4 (TR-4), said that right-of-way issues and the current pandemic quarantines have gotten in the way of the construction of the SLEX TR-4. However, SMC has stated in an interview that despite these hurdles, construction for […]

SMC To Close Hillsborough Off-Ramp on April 19

SMC will permanently close the Hillsborough off-ramp starting April 19.  This is to fast-track the Southbound Skyway Extension Project, as San Miguel Corporation has just completed the opposite Northbouth Skyway Extension. According to SMC, the opposing southbound ramp will advance and move at a faster pace so as to finish the project before the third […]

Malacañang reverts NCR to ECQ: Do’s and Dont’s Under ECQ

Malacañang is placing the NCR and other surrounding areas back to Enhanced Community Quarantine or ECQ the strictest form of lockdown since the COVID 19 epidemic began a year ago. The ECQ will begin on Monday, March 29, and last till April 4, 2021. Included in the NCR+ bubble is the capital as well as […]

DPWH LSEN Project

Luzon Spine Expressway Network to Connect Ilocos and Bicol

Good news for wayfarers: the 20-hour drive from La Union to Camarines Sur, or vice versa, will soon be just 9 hours with the recent Luzon Spine Expressway Network (LSEN) project. With all the recently completed and undergoing projects of DPWH, it’s now easy to visualize what the whole picture looks like: an entire Luzon […]

The NAIA Expressway’s Lane 1 Opens Today

The Ninoy Aquino International Airport Expressway’s (NAIAX) Lane 1, dubbed the “Christmas Lane”, will be opened to motorists starting Wednesday, December 21. Rappler reported on Tuesday that one of the four lanes of the currently under-construction 12.65-kilometer expressway will be opened for public use. “Starting tomorrow, we will partially open the NAIA Expressway project through […]

GPS On Public Buses: LTFRB Announces Brands To Be Used In PUBs

Will this lead to safer rides in the future? Drive in Manila long enough, and sooner or later you’ll have a run-in with reckless buses. You know the type – those smoke-belching, Mad Max driving, lane stealing public conveyances that ply our streets without any regard for the safety of people around them. Well, that’s […]

Planking in the Philippines

Planking is an activity where people imitate a plank (hands on the sides, straight body, expressionless face). The more public the place, the “better”. This started overseas but it’s slowly becoming popular in the Philippines. There’s a Facebook Page now called “Pinoy Planking” where Pinoys show off their planks. Here are some of the photos […]