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  1. Join Date
    Jan 2004
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    #1
    last saturday, while driving home to bulacan, this damn driver of Isuzu HiLander almost totaled with my ride. The reason? He just simply swerved to the left most lane of the road in Camachile carelessly. FYI, the pavement in Camachile toward NLEX is under restoration, while this inner most lane is paved already. Ok lang sana kung nag-signal siya para ma-anticipate, kaso nagsignal nga late naman. bw.s.t!

    ok sa u-turn slots tayo.the problem with u-turn slots in edsa is that it takes 2 to 3 lanes para sa mga gumagamit. thus, making the edsa leaving only one lane (bawal tumapak sa yellow lane right?) para sa mga dumideretso. minsan pag sinuswerte ka, sabay ang dating ng rumaragasang bus at yung nagyu-u turn kaya talagang nagpapatrapik. take the munoz area in the edsa, grabe ang trapik dun. ewan ko ba kay BF, minsan feeling ko by impulse na lang mag-implement ng kung ano-ano regarding sa trapik. hindi porque effective ang isang bagay sa isang lugar, e effective na sa lahat...

  2. Join Date
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    #2
    hmmm. u-turn slots.. agree with you, dapat at least man, may bakod pa din yung iikutan, para limited pa rin yung lanes na masasakot after the u-turn.

  3. FrankDrebin Guest
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    Para sa akin, effective naman ang U-Turn slot pwera lang siguro sa ibang area ng España at Quezon Ave. (Hindi ko tuloy mabasang mabuti yung Ad sa Pegasus, Et. Al.) na masikip ang daan at kapag rush hour esp. sa may malapit sa Examiner.

    Effective ang U-T ni BF kapag matino ang mga driver kaya lang hindi matino eh kaya ayun.

  4. Join Date
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    #4
    maganda ang concept ni BF, continuous flow ang traffic, walang traffic light. sa infrastructures ang problema ng U-Turn slots.
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  5. Join Date
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    #5
    just this morning, me fineature sa MUB...banggaan between two buses sa bandang edsa-munoz u-turn slot...one bus was trying to make the u-turn, e hindi pinagbigyan ng other bus....ayan, 5 lanes naging one lane na lang


    imho some of the u-turn slots are awkwardly placed, i.e. nasa long stretch of road where drivers usually drive fast...delikado lalo na kung gabi, since parang pang dekorasyon lang ung lamp posts natin

  6. Join Date
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    #6
    Let's face it. Sometimes, the U-Turn slots work for some areas...and sometimes they don't. An example of the latter would be the stretch of EDSA at ground level near the intersection of East-Avenue to Timog Ave.

    Cars coming from Timog going to East Ave. can no longer cross EDSA. Instead, they have to turn right to EDSA and make a U-Turn under the fly-over. The problem with this is there are two (2) bus terminals right in front of the U-Turn slots.

    Add to that, buses regularly stop to load and unload passengers at those areas. So...what use is the U-Turn when you have two-thirds of the highway blocked by buses and the remaining portion left for those who make a u-turn to go to East Ave. or go straight to EDSA-Cubao? Looks like the MMDA created a bigger problem by making a chokepoint or bottleneck on that stretch since there are a lot of vehicles which go from Timog to East Ave. and there are an equal if not greater number of cars which come from Q.A. or East Ave. going straight to EDSA-Cubao.

    If the MMDA wants this scheme to succeed, maybe they should eliminate the bus terminals in those areas so that there are no gridlocks caused by buses loading their passengers.

  7. Join Date
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    #7
    Quote Originally Posted by boybi
    maganda ang concept ni BF, continuous flow ang traffic, walang traffic light. sa infrastructures ang problema ng U-Turn slots.
    This is assuming ALL drivers marunong magbigayan, maayos mag drive. Notice, the opposite is the case in Manila. Drivers hog the lane, others try to create their own lane, etc.

  8. Join Date
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    #8
    Quote Originally Posted by ian_rex
    Ok lang sana kung nag-signal siya para ma-anticipate, kaso nagsignal nga late naman. bw.s.t!
    I found out that the signal lights are not for signaling that one is about to go in a certain direction.

    Eto mentality ng karamihan ng drivers ngayon: Kasi pag nag signal ka, say to the left, you will always be cut-off by another vehicle coming from that direction. Eh pano, signal lights mean to the approaching driver: "hoy bilisan ko dapat yung takbo ko, dapat mauna ako sa nag-sisignal, bawal pagbigyan siya... " I've seen this happen lots of times. Minsan sobrang obvious na mabagal ang takbo, tapos pag pasok ko sa lane nya, biglang bibilisan ang takbo, sabay biglang preno at busina.

    So the guy is assuming that you are that kind of a driver, and behaved accordingly, hayop talaga.

    So nowadays, swerve muna in the direction of where one is going, then kung pasok na or malapit na maaksidente, switch on the signal light. Reason here is kung naaksidente ng tuluyan, eto ang sagot "... eh naka signal naman ako ah! Ikaw ang bumangga sa akin etc. etc. ... "

    Haay ganun na talaga ang mundo... can't do anything about it.

  9. Join Date
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    #9
    minsan kahit ano ganda ng batas..kung wala rin disiplina ang tao ..wala din saysay

    ..dami talaga pasaway na driver lalo na ang jeepney at tricycle...

    lalo na jan sa caloocan ..jan yata may pinakamadami viahe ng tricycle.. gggrrrr

  10. Join Date
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    #10
    Based on my experience, ok naman ang mga U-Turn slots. The ones near the intersection of EDSA/North Ave (and Q Ave-Araneta) have helped ease traffic A LOT...

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barubal na driver at mga u-turn slots ni BF sa edsa