VERA Files
Speeding is the biggest contributor to road crash fatalities in the Philippines so road safety advocates and vulnerable road users welcome the call for lower speed limits, especially in commercial and residential areas.
Conflicting pieces of legislation, a lack of deputized traffic enforcers and delays in accreditation of road safety equipment make implementation difficult.
It comes with an 11-page template of a speed-limit ordinance.
San Fernando City is facing this problem now.
This year is no different in her family’s search for justice.
A “very radical transport modernization program” is in the offing.
By JAKE SORIANO [metaslider id=48020] Photos by LALA ORDENES At first glance, the Quezon City Regional Trial Court looks more like a church than a court. An assortment of statues — Christ on the cross, the child Jesus, the Virgin Mary — stare down on court employees, lawyers, police officers, nervous witnesses, family members of […]
By IRA V. PANGANIBAN Nine days before Christmas three years ago, a Don Mariano bus fell off the Skyway in Bicutan, Taguig and landed on a delivery van below, crushing the driver to death. The bus driver survived but 18 of his passengers never got to celebrate Christmas. At least 20 were injured. Investigation later […]