Traffic Advisory: Private cars can not use Edsa bus lanes starting Jan. 18

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Private cars can’t use Edsa bus lanes starting Jan. 18 | Inquirer News

By: Maricar B. Brizuela
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12:31 AM January 12th, 2016


STARTING next Monday, private motorists should stay off the yellow lanes for buses on a portion of Edsa if they want to avoid paying a fine of P500.

In a meeting last week, Cabinet Secretary Jose Rene Almendras, head of the Edsa Technical Working Group (TWG), and the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) said that on Jan. 18, they would begin cracking down on private vehicles using the yellow lanes on the southbound portion of Edsa between Shaw Boulevard in Mandaluyong City and Guadalupe in Makati City.

Almendras explained that they picked this particular stretch as it was the “most problematic� area during the morning rush hour.

The plan, however, is to eventually implement the policy on the whole stretch of Edsa.

According to him, private motorists can only use the bus lanes (the two outermost lanes of Edsa) if they are making a right turn. “If they will not cooperate, we will issue tickets,� he said, adding that the MMDA and Highway Patrol Group (HPG) would be deploying more men for the enforcement of the policy.

Almendras noted that when private vehicles keep out of the yellow lanes, buses can move faster.

Under MMDA Memorandum Circular No. 08 Series of 2012, private vehicles are not allowed to use lanes for Public Utility Vehicle (PUV) or yellow lanes unless they are turning right to get to a side road or entering Edsa from a side road. Violators face a fine of P500.

Despite this, many have observed that a lot of private vehicles can still be seen using the PUV lanes.

Asked if they were being lenient to violators, PNP-HPG director Chief Supt. Arnold Gunnacao said that apprehending these would disrupt the continuous flow of vehicles on the major thoroughfare since there were previously no delineators to separate the yellow lanes from the ones for private vehicles.

“But now, we have started fixing the barriers placed along Edsa to educate motorists,� Gunnacao explained, as he expressed hope that undisciplined drivers would start following traffic rules from now on.

He added that the HPG would be making further adjustments to avoid confusion among motorists.

“We will place concrete barriers on these entry and exit points for the motorists to properly identify them,� he said, noting that this was what they did when they placed barriers on the southbound lane between Kamuning and Cubao in Quezon City.

[XTO]

Di ko sinusunod yan nung di pa HPG, dahil dami naman talaga sumusuway...mapanis ka sa private lane pag di ka sumama.
Ramdam nila na mahirap sawatain mga pasaway kaya barriers dito barriers doon, U-turn slots na nilipat, pati intersection na sarado dati bukas na. Tama naman eh, implementation lang. Gusto kaya.

Kung lahat huhulihin, no problem ayos yan.

[cast_no_shadow]

Yan ang mali na mentality, can't beat them join them?

napapailing na nga lang ako dun sa mga nasa loob pa din ng yellow lane to think sinarahan na nga ng orange barriers (guadalupe area after buendia northbound)

isama mo pa yung bago pumanik ng santolan bridge, dameng private vehicles nasa yellow lane, akala mo iilalim sa santolan. Pagdating sa paanan ng tulay biglang kabig pakaliwa para pumanik. Bottleneck ang ending, balagong mga pumila ng maayos.

Dami na natin batas, ipatupad na lang sana. Why now only impose it? noon pa yan!

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Dadami Power trippers. [emoji16]


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[luis_]

Strict implementation lang sana para walang susunod. Problema kasi di naman talaga hinuhuli. Saka sana kahit provincial bus bawal na sa 3rd lane. Ang nangyayari kasi yung mga provincial bus pupunta puv lane pag maluwag. Pag may underpass na or overpass papasok na bigla. Pag rush hour kahit city bus nag uunderpass or overpass din at hindi naman hinuhuli.

Yung bukanan sana ng overpass/underpass maging exit lang sana ng mga mag seservice road.

[XTO]

No choice, pag maluwag ang inside yellow bakit di gamitin. Meron na ko kinausap ng TE dati wala siya masabi... Ngayon HPG na maganda yan, dapat lang respetuhin.

[newtocar]

Sana kahit sino ang namamahala sa pag patupad ng batas trapiko, maging TE o HPG man yan, dapat sumusunod tayo. Sa ganitong sitwasyon ipinapakita lang na hindi ang kawalan ng batas o kakulangan sa implementasyon ng batas ang problema, ngunit TAYO ANG PROBLEMA.

[jut703]

Yan tayo eh. "Sunod muna kayo lahat bago ako sumunod".


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[vinj]

Hoperfully the buses also stay out of private car lanes, and they catch all those idiots who like to cut the line at bottlenecks such as EDSA - Shaw underpass.

[XTO]

Dami guilty dyan dati, wag na magmalinis. T*ng* ka kung maluwag naman sa loob sa yellow ka magbababad