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LLEX

by Nigel Villarete - July 23, 2024 - 12:00am

One of the more exciting news items over the weekend was about the construction start of the planned Lapu-Lapu Expressway, or what we call simply as LLEX.

You are what you think …

by Nigel Villarete - July 16, 2024 - 12:00am

When you read the title of this column, you start thinking: what is this all about?

Traffic and the BRT…

by Nigel Villarete - July 9, 2024 - 12:00am

It might be repetitive trying to talk about the same things over and over again, but the way the human mind works, oftentimes, that’s the only way many messages get across --by repetition.

Pedestrianization of downtown Cebu

by Nigel Villarete - July 2, 2024 - 12:00am

Pedestrianization is a strange term to many in the sense that we seldom use it or even read it in the myriads of texts we go through every day.

Cebu BRT Urban Realm Enhancement

by Nigel Villarete - June 25, 2024 - 12:00am

Last week, a picture of a lamppost in the middle of one street lane in Cebu City reverberated across social media drawing thousands of comments from netizens.

Those obtrusive BRT lanes

by Nigel Villarete - June 18, 2024 - 12:00am

“When will those lanes be finished so that Osmeña Boulevard would go back to being three lanes again?

God’s ark

by Nigel Villarete - June 4, 2024 - 12:00am

Out of the estimated four billion world population before the Great Flood completely covered the earth, only eight people survived --Noah and his wife, their three sons and their wives.

Noah’s Ark

by Nigel Villarete - May 28, 2024 - 12:00am

Many people, even those who consider themselves Christians, are not convinced that the great flood narrated in Genesis 6 was real.

The UMRT Central Line

by Nigel Villarete - May 14, 2024 - 12:00am

The reported request of the Department of Transportation (DOTr) for an endorsement from the Cebu City Council, to conduct a feasibility study for the Metro Cebu Urban Mass Rapid Transit (UMRT) Central Line is music...

Local water districts?

by Nigel Villarete - May 7, 2024 - 12:00am

This idea emerged from the brouhaha now persisting at the Metro Cebu Water District (MCWD).

The BRT and the PUVM – Part 2

by Nigel Villarete - April 23, 2024 - 12:00am

Two weeks ago, this corner wrote about “The BRT and the PUVM,” dealing with the apparent aftereffect of the upcoming start of the Cebu BRT rollout.

Believing for the wrong reasons

by Nigel Villarete - March 26, 2024 - 12:00am

Palm Sunday is a tradition observed in many Christian churches and which was described in all four gospels.

The 8+8+8 rule and traffic

by Nigel Villarete - March 12, 2024 - 12:00am

There’s a quite popular meme circulating on social media these days.

Public transportation

by Nigel Villarete - March 5, 2024 - 12:00am

From the net, I got this definition – “transport of passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that...

Cebu BRT – what’s next?

by Nigel Villarete - February 20, 2024 - 12:00am

Everybody’s grumbling about the traffic situation in Cebu right now.

The current public transportation dilemma

by Nigel Villarete - February 6, 2024 - 12:00am

While following a sort of a “modernized jeepney” one day, I tried computing its passenger-carrying capacity.

After the BRT, what?

by Nigel Villarete - January 23, 2024 - 12:00am

A lot of Cebuanos, believers and skeptics alike, are waiting for the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit to be finished, some expecting it to serve the purpose it was intended for, and others waiting to prove it to fail.

Our response to Jesus’ birth

by Nigel Villarete - December 19, 2023 - 12:00am

For us Christians, the Christmas story is a familiar one. We heard it repeatedly since childhood --the story from the time it was announced to Mary by the angel Gabriel to the time on that midnight clear when it...

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