The long-lasting effects of what worried urban planners have called the pervasive "car-centric" culture in the Philippines is now evident in the daily traffic jams encountered by motorists and commuters along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City. 

SEA OF CARS

How will the Iloilo Business Park ensure the safety of its mall-goers from reckless drivers within its premises?

Will Deputized Traffic Guards  Make Megaworld Roads Safer?

It is wrong to ask if there is “traffic” or not, because there is always a “traffic flow” whenever there is at least one vehicle on the road. Perhaps it is our wrong understanding of the term “traffic” is one of the reasons why we have not solved the problem after all these years. In other words, the problem is not the “traffic” itself because it is always there. The problem or the challenge is how to make it flow faster.

Making traffic flow faster 

The problem of traffic returned to plague motorists passing through Metro Manila's most famous thoroughfare. 

'BACK TO NORMAL' TRAFFIC

Motorists and commuters, such as these line of vehicles approaching the Bocaue Toll Plaza along the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX), are now on the rush to return to work and school after the Christmas and New Year holidays.

NCR RESIDENTS RUSH HOME AFTER HOLIDAYS

Commuters and motorists returning to work and school after the Holy Week holidays once again face the harsh reality of life in Metro Manila.

BACK TO NORMAL TRAFFIC

While several measures are being implemented by the government to address traffic problems in Metro Manila, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. emphasized on Sunday that those measures will remain ineffective if people are still undisciplined on the road. In his vlog, President Marcos said discipline is still the key to address traffic congestion in the metropolis even if the government completed all road infrastructure projects, including developing nearby cities and provinces.


Discipline as a traffic solution

Just when government traffic officials are digging deeper for solutions to the traffic mess of the National Capital Region, here goes Congress granting tax perks to private motor vehicles that would further choke the shrinking roads of the capital region.

Tax perks: road to ‘carmaggedon’?

Matagal nang ginagawang "shortcut" ng mga motorista sa San Pedro City, Laguna ang mga daan sa Elvinda Subdivision sa Barangay Fatima, gayundin ang mga inner road sa Barangays Pacita 1 and 2, bilang mga alternatibong ruta upang makaiwas sa traffic sa National Highway.

Alternative traffic routes, binuksan sa San Pedro City

After three or four years, traffic in Metro Manila and suburbs had become somewhat tolerated by Filipinos and barely got ranked the worst in the world, until the attendance last week to the UK-group Coldplay’s concert of President Marcos Jr. and First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos.

PH traffic gets a beating after Coldplay concert

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