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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.”
He said the magnitude of the economic damage due to traffic exceeds the threshold for declaring a state of calamity, which typically stands at P1 billion. Manila Rep. Rolando Valeriano presided over the March 20 hearing, which discussed the holistic plan of MAP to alleviate the perennial traffic issue.Under this proposal, a traffic czar would be tasked to spearhead a comprehensive program aimed at decongesting Metro Manila.
Instead, Yap suggested incentivizing private EVs by exempting them from road congestion charges once a travel-demand management system is established on congested private car lanes, such as EDSA.
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