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MMDA MOTORCYCLE RIDING ACADEMY 80% COMPLETE

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority is set to open its Motorcycle Riding Academy located in Pasig City in the third quarter of this year. In an inspection at the ongoing construction site along Meralco Avenue (near corner Julia Vargas), MMDA Acting Chairman Atty. Don Artes said that the Academy is already 80% completed. “Facilities for […]

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MMDA MOTORBIKE INSTRUCTORS GET REFRESHER COURSE

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has started the training and refresher courses for motorcycle riders who will serve as trainers at the Motorcycle Riding Academy being constructed by the agency. MMDA Acting Chairman Atty. Don Artes said the training of trainers is to equip select personnel in preparation for the establishment of the Motorcycle […]

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MMDA OPENS EDSA MOTORCYCLE, BIKE REPAIR STATION

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority today inaugurated a motorcycle and bicycle repair station at the ground level of Quezon Avenue flyover in EDSA for motorcycle riders and cyclists who need emergency road assistance. The repair station, which is open from 5am to 9pm, is equipped with basic repair and vulcanizing tools, as well as trained […]

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DILG: MOTORCYCLE BARRIERS NOT NEEDED FOR APORS RIDING PILLION DURING GCQ

The National Task Force COVID-19 has allowed motorcycle riders in areas under a general community quarantine (GCQ) not to use a motorcycle barrier anymore for as long as the driver and the pillion rider live in the same address and the pillion rider is an APOR (Authorized Person Outside of Residence), the Department of the […]

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Politics

FASTRACK RELOCATION OF FIRE VICTIMS – GO

Senator Bong Go distributed cash assistance and grocery to the victims of a fire that killed one person and destroyed about 200 houses at the Fishport Market 3 in Barangay North Bay Boulevard South (NBBS), Navotas City, on October 18. “Kapag ganitong kailangang matugunan ang problema ninyo, pupuntahan ko kayo kahit anong oras po,” Go […]

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MAKE RESCUE-IN-TANDEM BIKERS AS FIRST RESPONDERS – REVILLA

Senator Bong Revilla has proposed a measure for all public and private hospitals in the country to delegate the ‘rescue-in-tandem’ motorcycle first responders to reduce response time and improve health care in both rural and urban areas in the country. Revilla filed a Senate bill  No. 1120, or “An Act Mandating All Public and Private Medical […]

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IMPLEMENT MOTORCYCLE CRIME PREVENTION ACT IMMEDIATELY – GORDON

Citing the unabated killings across the nation done by riding-in-tandem gunmen, Senator Dick Gordon has called for the immediate implementation of Republic Act 11235 or the Motorcycle Crime Prevention Act of 2019 to prevent such acts. Gordon, principal author and sponsor of RA 11235, made the call following the recent killings in the Visayas. “We […]