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NIGHT OWL Metro Manila traffic has improved in recent months — but the “Build, Build, Build” team is not yet done. In the next 60 days, two bridges across Pasig River will open and is expected to decongest at least 50,000 vehicles out of EDSA and C5. The best part? Ortigas and BGC will only be 12
Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo A few years back while attending the Leaders in Development programme of Harvard Kennedy School, our professor asked us to write one thing which we aspired to achieve in the next ten years. We wrote it in a piece of paper and placed it beside our name card. I thought for a moment and scribbled — “Philippines achieving its full potential.” In the 1960’s the Philippines had the second highest per capita income in Asia, behind only Japan. A decade later, South Korea had passed our country in per capita income terms largely due to the successful implementation of it...
President Duterte inaugurated on Thursday the 18-kilometer Metro Manila Skyway Stage 3 project – an elevated expressway that connects the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) from Buendia in Makati City to the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) in Balintawak, Quezon City. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte leads the unveiling of the marker of the Metro Manila Skyway Stage 3 (MMSS-3) Project during the inauguration ceremony at the Del Monte Toll Plaza in Quezon City on January 14, 2021. (ALFRED FRIAS/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar, together with DPWH...
QUEZON CITY, Jan. 14 -- President Rodrigo Roa Duterte inaugurated Thursday, January 14, 2021 the 18-kilometer Metro Manila Skyway Stage 3 from Buendia, Makati City to Balintawak, Quezon City that connected the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) and North Luzon Expressway (NLEX). Together with the President at the opening ceremony of the elevated expressway built under the Build, Build, Build Program are Department of Public Works and Secretary Mark A. Villar and San Miguel Corporation (SMC) President Ramon S. Ang. The ceremony was also attended by Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” T. Go,...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo In 2016 — when we started Build, Build, Build, critics said that the EDSA Decongestion Program is mathematically impossible, that it cannot be done, that President Rodrigo Duterte was over promising, and that Google Maps does not support such assertion. They fa