Repair work on Edsa resumes, heavy traffic expected

By Jocelyn Uy
Inquirer
Last updated 09:12pm (Mla time) 01/06/2007

MANILA -- Motorists should expect heavy traffic on Edsa every weekend again as repair works on the main highway have resumed, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority said Saturday.

The Edsa rehabilitation project began in October and was temporarily halted in the second week of December so as not to worsen traffic snarls common leading to and during the Christmas and New Year holidays.

MMDA Traffic Operations Center Executive Director Angelito Vergel De Dios said the work, which would be following the same schedule -- from 10 p.m. Friday until 4 a.m. Monday -- would continue probably until February.

"I am not really sure when we will be finished but 70 percent of the work is done," he told the Inquirer on Saturday.

Motorists are advised to avoid these areas on Sunday: the north and southbound lanes of the North Road Rail Station near the North Avenue Depot; the northbound lane after the GMA-Kamuning flyover in Quezon City; Santolan near Gate 4 of Camp Aguinaldo, and the southbound lane of Edsa-Taft in Pasay City.