Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto on solving traffic: 'Most notably, the efforts of the MMDA along EDSA have greatly increased vehicle volume in C5 and even the interior roads of Pasig.'
The officials of Pasig have been working with “outside experts” to craft a comprehensive mobility management plan for the city, which report is due on August 15.since last month to come up with quick fixes to solve the traffic congestion in their areas.
Sotto emphasized that such task was particularly difficult for him given the fact that a large volume of vehicles going from Quezon City to Makati and Rizal province to Metro Manila pass through the city’s main roads.Update relevant traffic data such as the amount of vehicles passing through PasigHe also cited other short-term solutions in the comments section.
“This means a greater focus on moving people rather than private vehicles. This means incorporating more non-car modes of transportation in our long-term plans,” he added.showed that MMDA’s policies restricting the passage of city and provincial buses along EDSA resulted in further inconvenience to commuters and motorists.
Despite the evident failure, MMDA still considered reducing the number of buses as the solution to EDSA’s never-ending traffic problem.to President Rodrigo Duterte during his recent State of the Nation Address.Sotto started taking some measures to provide a more organized flow of transportation in his city prior to the general meeting of the city mayors and the Department of Interior and Local Government last month.
Under this scheme, vehicles with license plates ending in even numbers are banned on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Meanwhile, those ending in odd numbers are not allowed on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
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