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Bus terminals for Cebu
by Nigel Paul C. Villarete - April 2, 2024 - 12:00am
So far, the pronouncements of local political leaders in Cebu seems to be leaning in a trajectory to transfer the Cebu South Bus Terminal (CSBT), from its present location at the N. Bacalso Avenue to the South Road...
The Cebu BRT delays
by Nigel Paul C. Villarete - January 30, 2024 - 12:00am
There’s another news article again on the delays of the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit (BRT).
The BRT is not a bus
by Nigel Paul C. Villarete - November 14, 2023 - 12:00am
This statement would probably meet immediate opposition from most people.
Will the BRT help the Cebuanos?
by Nigel Paul C. Villarete - October 17, 2023 - 12:00am
This would seem to be a strange question, knowing that all of us, or at least people who live in Cebu City, seem to agree that indeed, it will.
The shortness of life
by Nigel Paul C. Villarete - September 26, 2023 - 12:00am
Last week we wrote of Methuselah, the oldest man alive at 969 years. 
Methuselah, the oldest man alive
by Nigel Paul C. Villarete - September 19, 2023 - 12:00am
Many people consider him not real, just as many does not believe in the Bible at all, or consider the latter, if part or even as a whole, a work of fiction. 
The skywalks of Osmeña Boulevard
by Nigel Paul C. Villarete - September 12, 2023 - 12:00am
It would be a comedy of errors if the completion of the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) would be delayed by as simple an item as the two skywalks across Osmeña Boulevard - one near Fuente Osmeña across...
Who will run Cebu BRT?
by Nigel Paul C. Villarete - September 5, 2023 - 12:00am
Let’s backtrack a little bit into the project management setup of the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit.
Who will run Cebu BRT? (Part 2 – Service Contracting)
by Nigel Paul C. Villarete - August 29, 2023 - 12:00am
Last week, we started looking at the institutional aspect of running the Cebu Bus Rapid transit (BRT).
Who will run Cebu BRT?
by Nigel Paul C. Villarete - August 22, 2023 - 12:00am
Watching the road lane construction for the Cebu Bus Rapid transit (BRT) along Osmeña Blvd., Cebuanos eagerly await the birth of a new era --one of the best public transportation systems in the world running...
Cebu’s worsening traffic condition
by Nigel Paul C. Villarete - August 15, 2023 - 12:00am
Some might argue it would be pointless discussing the inevitable.
MCDP-III – SRP
by Nigel Paul C. Villarete - August 8, 2023 - 12:00am
MCDP-III as approved and executed actually contains two different projects under two different agencies.
To know God personally
by Nigel Paul C. Villarete - August 1, 2023 - 12:00am
In the Scriptures, God is always described as a person.
Habal-habal (Part 5) - The needed study
by Nigel Paul C. Villarete - July 11, 2023 - 12:00am
In early 2018, I wrote a four-part series on the travails of the “habal-habal”, the motorcycle-for-ride transport mode not only in the Philippines but in almost all countries in the global south.
Qu? v?dis, Metro Cebu (Part 2)
by Nigel Paul C. Villarete - June 20, 2023 - 12:00am
I wrote the first part of this topic back in January of 2001, right after the new year. More than two years have passed, and nothing really has changed much, and Metro Cebu is still in the same worrisome trajectory,...
Economic benefits of roads
by Nigel Paul C. Villarete - June 13, 2023 - 12:00am
The reality that roads, or their wider genre, transportation in general, brings economic progress to a country will never be up for debate. In all the centuries, nay, millennia of the world’s history, roads...
The “raison d'etre”  of bike lanes
by Nigel Paul C. Villarete - May 30, 2023 - 12:00am
Not too many people bike on Cebu City streets --Filipinos in general are not known to take on cycling as a form of mobility though a good number do cycle as a hobby or for exercise.
Quo vadis, SRP Rotunda?
by Nigel Paul C. Villarete - April 25, 2023 - 12:00am
In August 2021, I wrote a three-part series about the SRP Rotunda.
The Modernization of our Transport Systems (Part 4) – The LPTRP
by Nigel Paul C. Villarete - March 28, 2023 - 12:00am
“The Local Public Transport Route Plan, or LPTRP is a plan detailing the route network, mode, and required number of units per mode for delivering land transport service, which shall be the minimum requirement...
The Modernization of our Transport Systems (Part 3) – The old jeepney buyout
by Nigel Paul C. Villarete - March 21, 2023 - 12:00am
The Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program is supposed to cover all public utility vehicles but it mainly focuses on jeepneys as of the moment.
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