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Options for the Cebu BRT

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

After decades of preparation, the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is already in the final stages of being started.

The captain of my ship

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

How many times have I said this in the past, and I’m sure you did, too.

How to plan for transport

by Nigel Villarete - October 22, 2024 - 12:00am

There are two words that are often used interchangeably --transport and traffic-- maybe because they refer to almost the same thing.

Quo tendimus?

by Nigel Villarete - October 15, 2024 - 12:00am

I am not really good at Latin, a few phrases I know can be counted with the fingers of my hands.

Teaching the Bible to our children

by Nigel Paul Villarete - October 8, 2024 - 12:00am

There are a lot of reasons why we need to teach the Bible to our children. I am speaking to and for Bible-believing Christians of course.

Roundabouts revisited

by Nigel Villarete - October 1, 2024 - 12:00am

I have already written some thoughts about roundabouts around five years ago, but I think it would be good to revisit this again.

CSCR’s EIRR Revisited

by Nigel Villarete - September 24, 2024 - 12:00am

This column’s title is in acronyms simply because they’re quite long and might not be proper as a title.

Metro Cebu Expressway?

by Nigel Villarete - September 3, 2024 - 12:00am

I have always maintained my advocacy for public mass transportation as the key to better urban economic growth.

The BRT is “green”

by Nigel Villarete - August 27, 2024 - 12:00am

Someone sent to me the idea of having electric buses to be used for the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system.

BRTs don’t/can’t solve traffic

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

???????As the initial stretch of the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit system is nearing completion along Osmeña Boulevard, social media is full of diverse opinions on what to expect, with the majority hoping that traffic...

Why read the Bible

by Nigel Villarete - August 13, 2024 - 12:00am

Before you put down this paper (or search another site on the net), spare a minute or two to read a little longer.

Jeepneys – the end of an era

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

Are we seeing the end of an era for jeepneys? Hopefully not! Most of us, especially the “senior” ones grew up with i

Cebu’s worsening traffic outlook

by Nigel Villarete - July 30, 2024 - 12:00am

Again, with a pre-statement --when we say “traffic” here we will mean “traffic congestion”.

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.

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