Monday, 30 November 2009 19:18
VEHICLE owners in Cebu City may find themselves stopped and paying at a toll gate when the kilometer-long subway section of the Cebu South Coastal Road opens early next year, as public-works officials and representatives of the Japanese contractor said there is no budget to pay for the equipment and utilities to run the facility.
The project manager from Japanese contractor Kajima Corp. told government and private-sector planners that although they have a one-year warranty period and maintenance obligation after the project is completed, this does not include payment for the bills.
Cebu north coastal road in peril
Monday, November 23, 2009 -
by:
Willy Rodolfo
Business Mirror
Monday, 23 November 2009 19:59
THE contractor of the P2.36-billion Cebu North Coastal Road has asked to suspend the project a month after it is set to be completed after the national government failed to pay for its monthly accomplishment payments for the last four months, public-work officials said.
The highway, hinged on a 1.25-kilometer, four-lane offshore bridge over Cansaga Bay in Consolacion town north of Mandaue City, is the final half of the second north-south road corridor in Metro Cebu. The project was started in 2008 and has been targeted for completion by next month.
Monday, 23 November 2009 19:59
THE contractor of the P2.36-billion Cebu North Coastal Road has asked to suspend the project a month after it is set to be completed after the national government failed to pay for its monthly accomplishment payments for the last four months, public-work officials said.
The highway, hinged on a 1.25-kilometer, four-lane offshore bridge over Cansaga Bay in Consolacion town north of Mandaue City, is the final half of the second north-south road corridor in Metro Cebu. The project was started in 2008 and has been targeted for completion by next month.
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No BRT-LRT Showdown
Saturday, November 21, 2009 -
by:
Willy Rodolfo
Thursday, 19 November 2009
THE expected showdown between proponents of the mass-rail transit and bus rapid transit (BRT) projects in Metro Cebu at the Regional Development Council (RDC) meeting will not happen, as the two projects have not been lined up for discussion.
National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) Central Visayas director Marlene Rodriguez told the BusinessMirror that the two projects have not been scheduled for discussion in the council’s infrastructure development committee and could not be taken up in the full council.
THE expected showdown between proponents of the mass-rail transit and bus rapid transit (BRT) projects in Metro Cebu at the Regional Development Council (RDC) meeting will not happen, as the two projects have not been lined up for discussion.
National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) Central Visayas director Marlene Rodriguez told the BusinessMirror that the two projects have not been scheduled for discussion in the council’s infrastructure development committee and could not be taken up in the full council.
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Cebu's Power Struggle
Friday, November 13, 2009 -
by:
Willy Rodolfo
Business Mirror
Monday, 02 November 2009
IN a single day, October 23, Metro Cebu suffered sporadic brownouts for close to 12 hours, “rotated” to different feeders by the local distribution utility to spread out the damage. That Friday was just one of many, increasingly recurring days this year when most of the Visayas run short of its needed power, a problem predicted years ago but has not yet quite been prepared for.
Cebu is luckier, according to the Department of energy (DOE) in the Visayas. The real effects of the brownouts, caused by the power shortages in central Philippines, only affected the biggest metropolis outside Metro Manila the past few months. Other islands and cities like Iloilo, Bacolod and tourist capital Boracay had been suffering almost daily brownouts since 2008.
And it is bound to get worse, with a less glittery Christmas to boot, the agency warned.
Monday, 02 November 2009
IN a single day, October 23, Metro Cebu suffered sporadic brownouts for close to 12 hours, “rotated” to different feeders by the local distribution utility to spread out the damage. That Friday was just one of many, increasingly recurring days this year when most of the Visayas run short of its needed power, a problem predicted years ago but has not yet quite been prepared for.
Cebu is luckier, according to the Department of energy (DOE) in the Visayas. The real effects of the brownouts, caused by the power shortages in central Philippines, only affected the biggest metropolis outside Metro Manila the past few months. Other islands and cities like Iloilo, Bacolod and tourist capital Boracay had been suffering almost daily brownouts since 2008.
And it is bound to get worse, with a less glittery Christmas to boot, the agency warned.
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