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MMDA’s Updates Traffic iOS App
Published on 8 Jan, 2012 at 10:58 in Featured Auto News, Traffic, Fuel, Infrastructure | | No Comments
Motorists can now navigate Metro Manila’s major thoroughfares with their iPhone and iPad devices again, after the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA)’s updated app made it to Apple’s App Store.
The MMDA’s updated app, version 2.0.3, went live on the App Store as of Wednesday morning, Manila time.
“MMDA iOS app v2.0.3 is out. Update fixes…
MMDA Launches Internet-Based Traffic Navigation System for Metro
Published on 19 Jul, 2011 at 21:02 in Featured Auto News, Traffic, Fuel, Infrastructure | | No Comments
Commuters and motorists may now get real-time traffic updates from the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) with its new Internet-based traffic navigator system.
MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino said the system can help motorists and public utility drivers make informed decisions on what routes to take.
“They can now avoid heavy-traffic areas, which will be a great help for…
Quezon City Planning to Impose Speed Limits on More Major Roads
Published on 30 May, 2011 at 21:11 in Featured Auto News, Traffic, Fuel, Infrastructure | | 1 Comment
The Quezon City government has plans to impose speed limits on two or more major thoroughfares to make them safer and to instill discipline among drivers.
Mayor Herbert Bautista has directed the city’s Department of Public Order and Safety (DPOS) to study recommendations to impose speed limits on Quezon Avenue and Mindanao Avenue and other major thoroughfares…
MMDA Fields More Traffic Enforcers along ‘Killer Highway’
Published on 18 May, 2011 at 20:29 in Traffic, Fuel, Infrastructure | | 1 Comment
Following a series of deadly accidents there this month, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority has deployed added traffic enforcement teams along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City.
In a radio interview Wednesday, MMDA spokesperson Tina Velasco said the added personnel are to be at their posts 24 hours a day, even as she said they had apprehended 74…
MMDA Lists Alternative Routes as Makati Flyover Rehabilitation Starts
Published on 6 May, 2011 at 15:50 in Traffic, Fuel, Infrastructure | | 1 Comment
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) advised motorists to take alternate routes as repair work on the Buendia-Osmeña Flyover in Makati City begins at 9:00 p.m. on Friday.
In its advisory, the MMDA said the northbound lane of Osmeña highway (crossing Buendia Flyover) will be partially closed because the Department of Public Works and Highways is set…
MMDA Lifts Color-Coding Maundy Thursday and Good Friday; Resumes April 25
Published on 14 Apr, 2011 at 16:27 in Traffic, Fuel, Infrastructure | | 1 Comment
The Unified Vehicular Volume Reduction Program (UVVRP) will be lifted on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) said yesterday.
The number coding scheme will resume on April 25.
MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino said the four-day suspension of UVVRP will provide motorists an unhampered mobility while going to and from the provinces during the Lenten season.
Tolentino…
MMDA Adds Color to Number Coding
Published on 5 Apr, 2011 at 21:25 in Traffic, Fuel, Infrastructure | | No Comments
Public utility vehicles operators, school and tourist buses, and even cargo trucks plying routes inside the National Capital Region will have to follow a color scheme starting July, according to the Metro Manila Development Authority.
Corazon Jimenez, MMDA general manager, said Chairman Francis Tolentino had issued Memorandum Circular 5 to strengthen MMDA Resolution 11-02 Series of 2011 to enforce…
MMDA Steps Up Plans to Ease Xmas Traffic Woes
Published on 29 Nov, 2010 at 8:58 in Traffic, Fuel, Infrastructure | | No Comments
Expecting vehicle traffic to get heavier near commercial districts as the Christmas shopping season peaks, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and mall administrators are working out ways to deal with the problem.
MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino met officials of Ortigas Center and Ayala Center this week to coordinate measures to ease traffic congestion especially along Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (EDSA).
“Traffic…
MMDA Starts Bus Coding Scheme
Published on 15 Nov, 2010 at 12:19 in Traffic, Fuel, Infrastructure | | No Comments
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) stood pat on its decision to impose a number-coding scheme for public utility buses on Monday as it apologized for the inconvenience caused by a strike staged by bus operators.
MMDA spokeswoman Tina Velasco said Monday that despite the strike, the number-coding scheme puts them on the right track to decongest Metro Manila’s main roads.
“Ipagpasensya…
MMDA Pushes for More Elevated U-Turns in Metro Manila
Published on 16 Mar, 2009 at 13:23 in Traffic, Fuel, Infrastructure | | 5 Comments
The Metro Manila Development Authority today hoped that the Department of Public Works and Highways would heed the request of the agency to build an elevated U-turn along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City.
MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando said an elevated U-turn in the major thoroughfare would further ease the traffic in the area especially during rush…
