All set for lane segregation on Commonwealth

[ghosthunter]

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/211599/m...mmonwealth-ave

[SIZE="4"]MMDA rejects calls to raise speed limit along Commonwealth Ave.[/SIZE]
01/27/2011 | 09:34 AM

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority on Thursday rejected suggestions to raise the speed limit along the 12.4-km Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City.

MMDA chairman Francis Tolentino said the 60-kph limit, which they started implementing this week, will mainly benefit senior citizens using the highway.

"Marami tayong senior citizens na nagmamaneho sa Commonwealth Avenue, naghahatid ang apo sa iskwelahan, maraming iskwelahan sa Commonwealth Avenue. Tamang tama ang 60 kph sa kanilang reflexes," Tolentino said in an interview on dwIZ radio.

(Many senior citizens drive along Commonwealth Avenue, bringing their grandchildren to school. There are many schools along that highway. The 60-kph speed limit is just right for their driving reflexes.)

He also said this speed limit is one of the ways they can reduce accidents and fatalities along the avenue, which some had dubbed a "killer highway."

On Tuesday, the MMDA started implementing a 60-kph speed limit as well as a lane assignment system.

Under the lane assignment system, the two rightmost lanes are for buses, while the two next lanes are for motorcycles and jeeps. The other lanes are for private vehicles.

Tolentino said that for the first two days the MMDA's new traffic rules along Commonwealth Avenue went into effect, there had been no accident reported.

"Sa second araw wala pang aksidente at wala pang namamatay sa Commonwealth Avenue (For the first two days, there had been no accident along Commonwealth Avenue)," he said. — RSJ, GMANews.TV

[ben_david19]

alam niyo, dapat may minimum speed limit din eh. takaw aksidente din ang mababagal magmaneho sa totoo lang.

[ghosthunter]

alam niyo, dapat may minimum speed limit din eh. takaw aksidente din ang mababagal magmaneho sa totoo lang.

Unfortunately you cannot enforce a minimum speed on a road that is NOT an expressway. You have establishments on that highway so it is normal for cars to slow down before parking, etc.

[robot.sonic]

Ipupusta ko kaluluwa ko dito. 2 months lang balik sa dati yan.

robot.sonic

[CVT]

Ipupusta ko kaluluwa ko dito. 2 months lang balik sa dati yan.

robot.sonic

Malaking pusta iyan bro....

Rather, sana gustuhin natin na ito ang simula ng pagbabago ng sistema ng trapiko rito sa atin....

12.1K:drunk:

[ghosthunter]

Ipupusta ko kaluluwa ko dito. 2 months lang balik sa dati yan.

robot.sonic

DEAL!

[CVT]

DEAL!

Ayan,- yari ka Bro. robot.sonic

May nag call na ng pusta mo.... :bwahaha:

12.1K:drunk:

[robot.sonic]

Yehey! Sigurado panalo ako sa pustahan na to.

Sana si tolentino pumusta din.

robot.sonic

[jeDi13]

sa mga dumadaan araw-araw sa commonwealth, mas ok ba ngayon na may speed limit na?

[scharnhorst]

sa mga dumadaan araw-araw sa commonwealth, mas ok ba ngayon na may speed limit na?

hinde.

60 kph is just too slow.

1)what happens is everybody cruises at 40 or 50 kph.

2)if you go near 60, all you do is look at the speedo, and not at the road.

3)cars bunch up closer now than when there was no speed limit.

4)in NLEX, 100 is easy to maintain, because it's level. commonwealth undulates - may mga uphill at downhill. you could easily go over 60 during the downhill parts without meaning to.

besides. most accidents occur late at night or during early dawn... I'm pretty sure walang manghuhuli from 11 pm to 5 am.

ngayon ang daming TTMO sa commonwealth. nakakatakot talaga yung mga TTMO. ingat kayo sa TTMO :rofl: