+ Follow EARLY WARNING Tag
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[Title] => "When will they ever learn...?"
[Summary] =>
Those are lyrics from a big hit by the very famous folk music group known as the Brothers Four during the sixties, titled "Where have all the flowers gone…?
And after all the big accidents involving the infamous MMDA "U-Turn Slots" that have cement barriers that are barely seen at night, I would like to dedicate that song to those from the MMDA who are managing the metro’s traffic engineering.
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-04 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134827
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[AuthorID] => 1805279
[AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa
[SectionName] => Motoring
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[URL] =>
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[ArticleID] => 390622
[Title] => Graffiti on our roads?
[Summary] =>
Is there a standard set of guidelines for street and road traffic markings in the Metro and all over the country?
Do the traffic markings on our streets follow internationally-accepted standards or are they all "bara-bara" and whimsical just like some of those street signs in Metro Manila that come atrociously in varied colors of the rainbow?
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-21 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134827
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805279
[AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa
[SectionName] => Motoring
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[ArticleID] => 370394
[Title] => Does the new LTFRB head have the political will?
[Summary] =>
In less than two weeks time it will be December, the promised deadline of former LTFRB head Elena Bautista to reduce the present number of buses plying EDSA to a more manageable 1,800 to 2,000 from the present 5,000 units or more.
Studies conducted by organizations concerned with the present near-chaotic traffic situation in Metro Manila have shown that it’s this runaway increase of the number of buses, a good many of them "colorums" or without franchises, which is the main cause for having a "clogged" EDSA even at non-peak hours.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-22 00:00:00
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[Title] => Does the new LTFRB head have the political will?
[Summary] =>
In less than two weeks time it will be December, the promised deadline of former LTFRB head Elena Bautista to reduce the present number of buses plying EDSA to a more manageable 1,800 to 2,000 from the present 5,000 units or more.
Studies conducted by organizations concerned with the present near-chaotic traffic situation in Metro Manila have shown that it’s this runaway increase of the number of buses, a good many of them "colorums" or without franchises, which is the main cause for having a "clogged" EDSA even at non-peak hours.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-22 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134827
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805279
[AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa
[SectionName] => Motoring
[SectionUrl] => motoring
[URL] =>
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[ArticleID] => 348194
[Title] => More SPMJ road safety seminars & workshops
[Summary] =>
The old adage that says "When it rains, it pours" is really apt to describe how the "Early Warning" seminars and workshops on road safety being conducted by SPMJ (Society of Philippine Motoring Journalists) are being held one after another recently.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-19 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134827
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805279
[AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa
[SectionName] => Motoring
[SectionUrl] => motoring
[URL] =>
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[Title] => Road Safety — a Global Concern
[Summary] => One of the many issues that we saw tackled extensively during the 2006 Challenge Bibendum held recently in Paris, France was ‘road safety’. It was actually one of the three major concerns addressed during the conference together with ‘the energy challenge for tomorrow’s road transport’ and ‘advance technologies to support increasing urban road mobility’.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-05 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134827
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805279
[AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa
[SectionName] => Motoring
[SectionUrl] => motoring
[URL] =>
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[ArticleID] => 331524
[Title] => Yes! The Civic has arrived
[Summary] => The all-new Honda Civic, the sedan that has been viewed with concern by its competitors in the local market due to its potential drawing power and eagerly awaited by many loyal Honda customers and those who are always on the lookout for anything new and possibly superior in the current line up of market offerings was finally launched last week, April 3 at the Greenbelt 3 lagoon area.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-12 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134827
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805279
[AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa
[SectionName] => Motoring
[SectionUrl] => motoring
[URL] =>
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[ArticleID] => 321822
[Title] => We can stage protest to allow us to break the law?
[Summary] => We received a very emotional (angry) appeal from one of our readers, reacting to the traffic gridlock-causing protests staged by truckers recently to convince the authorities not to implement a long-standing law against "overloading".
Quoting our reader, "If there were laws that we feel are not fair or outdated or unconstitutional, the right thing to do is to convince our lawmakers to come up with legislation to repeal it or scrap it all together — not stage protests that would inconvenience the populace."
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-15 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134827
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805279
[AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa
[SectionName] => Motoring
[SectionUrl] => motoring
[URL] =>
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[ArticleID] => 320622
[Title] => DOTC’s Mendoza blinks
[Summary] => The general reaction from our readers and friends regarding the decision of the Department of Transportation and Communications to suspend once again the implementation of the phasing out of buses that are 15 years old and over was to question its wisdom.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-08 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134827
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805279
[AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa
[SectionName] => Motoring
[SectionUrl] => motoring
[URL] =>
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[ArticleID] => 309546
[Title] => Useless Traffic Lights
[Summary] => Last Saturday, while I was at Eastwood City in Libis, Quezon City, where we held the 2nd Elimination Leg of the Business & Leisure Texas Hold ‘Em Mall Tour — Eastwood City Challenge as presented by Honda, I met someone who professed that she was an avid reader of my weekly columns here at The STAR (Motoring Today on Wednesdays and Business & Leisure on Saturdays).
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-30 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134827
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805279
[AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa
[SectionName] => Motoring
[SectionUrl] => motoring
[URL] =>
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EARLY WARNING
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[ArticleID] => 393096
[Title] => "When will they ever learn...?"
[Summary] =>
Those are lyrics from a big hit by the very famous folk music group known as the Brothers Four during the sixties, titled "Where have all the flowers gone…?
And after all the big accidents involving the infamous MMDA "U-Turn Slots" that have cement barriers that are barely seen at night, I would like to dedicate that song to those from the MMDA who are managing the metro’s traffic engineering.
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-04 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134827
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805279
[AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa
[SectionName] => Motoring
[SectionUrl] => motoring
[URL] =>
)
[1] => Array
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[ArticleID] => 390622
[Title] => Graffiti on our roads?
[Summary] =>
Is there a standard set of guidelines for street and road traffic markings in the Metro and all over the country?
Do the traffic markings on our streets follow internationally-accepted standards or are they all "bara-bara" and whimsical just like some of those street signs in Metro Manila that come atrociously in varied colors of the rainbow?
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-21 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134827
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805279
[AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa
[SectionName] => Motoring
[SectionUrl] => motoring
[URL] =>
)
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[ArticleID] => 370394
[Title] => Does the new LTFRB head have the political will?
[Summary] =>
In less than two weeks time it will be December, the promised deadline of former LTFRB head Elena Bautista to reduce the present number of buses plying EDSA to a more manageable 1,800 to 2,000 from the present 5,000 units or more.
Studies conducted by organizations concerned with the present near-chaotic traffic situation in Metro Manila have shown that it’s this runaway increase of the number of buses, a good many of them "colorums" or without franchises, which is the main cause for having a "clogged" EDSA even at non-peak hours.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-22 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134827
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805279
[AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa
[SectionName] => Motoring
[SectionUrl] => motoring
[URL] =>
)
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[ArticleID] => 370573
[Title] => Does the new LTFRB head have the political will?
[Summary] =>
In less than two weeks time it will be December, the promised deadline of former LTFRB head Elena Bautista to reduce the present number of buses plying EDSA to a more manageable 1,800 to 2,000 from the present 5,000 units or more.
Studies conducted by organizations concerned with the present near-chaotic traffic situation in Metro Manila have shown that it’s this runaway increase of the number of buses, a good many of them "colorums" or without franchises, which is the main cause for having a "clogged" EDSA even at non-peak hours.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-22 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134827
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805279
[AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa
[SectionName] => Motoring
[SectionUrl] => motoring
[URL] =>
)
[4] => Array
(
[ArticleID] => 348194
[Title] => More SPMJ road safety seminars & workshops
[Summary] =>
The old adage that says "When it rains, it pours" is really apt to describe how the "Early Warning" seminars and workshops on road safety being conducted by SPMJ (Society of Philippine Motoring Journalists) are being held one after another recently.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-19 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134827
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805279
[AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa
[SectionName] => Motoring
[SectionUrl] => motoring
[URL] =>
)
[5] => Array
(
[ArticleID] => 345536
[Title] => Road Safety — a Global Concern
[Summary] => One of the many issues that we saw tackled extensively during the 2006 Challenge Bibendum held recently in Paris, France was ‘road safety’. It was actually one of the three major concerns addressed during the conference together with ‘the energy challenge for tomorrow’s road transport’ and ‘advance technologies to support increasing urban road mobility’.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-05 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134827
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805279
[AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa
[SectionName] => Motoring
[SectionUrl] => motoring
[URL] =>
)
[6] => Array
(
[ArticleID] => 331524
[Title] => Yes! The Civic has arrived
[Summary] => The all-new Honda Civic, the sedan that has been viewed with concern by its competitors in the local market due to its potential drawing power and eagerly awaited by many loyal Honda customers and those who are always on the lookout for anything new and possibly superior in the current line up of market offerings was finally launched last week, April 3 at the Greenbelt 3 lagoon area.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-12 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134827
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805279
[AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa
[SectionName] => Motoring
[SectionUrl] => motoring
[URL] =>
)
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[ArticleID] => 321822
[Title] => We can stage protest to allow us to break the law?
[Summary] => We received a very emotional (angry) appeal from one of our readers, reacting to the traffic gridlock-causing protests staged by truckers recently to convince the authorities not to implement a long-standing law against "overloading".
Quoting our reader, "If there were laws that we feel are not fair or outdated or unconstitutional, the right thing to do is to convince our lawmakers to come up with legislation to repeal it or scrap it all together — not stage protests that would inconvenience the populace."
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-15 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134827
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805279
[AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa
[SectionName] => Motoring
[SectionUrl] => motoring
[URL] =>
)
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(
[ArticleID] => 320622
[Title] => DOTC’s Mendoza blinks
[Summary] => The general reaction from our readers and friends regarding the decision of the Department of Transportation and Communications to suspend once again the implementation of the phasing out of buses that are 15 years old and over was to question its wisdom.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-08 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134827
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805279
[AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa
[SectionName] => Motoring
[SectionUrl] => motoring
[URL] =>
)
[9] => Array
(
[ArticleID] => 309546
[Title] => Useless Traffic Lights
[Summary] => Last Saturday, while I was at Eastwood City in Libis, Quezon City, where we held the 2nd Elimination Leg of the Business & Leisure Texas Hold ‘Em Mall Tour — Eastwood City Challenge as presented by Honda, I met someone who professed that she was an avid reader of my weekly columns here at The STAR (Motoring Today on Wednesdays and Business & Leisure on Saturdays).
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-30 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134827
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805279
[AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa
[SectionName] => Motoring
[SectionUrl] => motoring
[URL] =>
)
)
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