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With an estimated P3.5-billion daily economic losses incurred from traffic, the Management Association of the Philippines through its Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said Metro Manila should be placed under a “state of calamity.”
Yap also recommended that President Marcos may exercise his emergency powers to implement relief measures to address the ongoing crisis. The program comprises short, medium, and long-term measures to provide immediate relief for motorists and ensure long-term sustainability through infrastructural improvements, particularly in mass public transportation.Included in the proposal is the adoption of private Electric Vehicles to reduce air pollution.
“The ideal time to institute this travel-demand-regulating measure is when the Busway and the MRT3 have been privatized and upgraded to global standards of efficiency,” the MAP said in its statement on March 21.
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