The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and the Highway Patrol Group (HPG) warned private vehicles that they should avoid using the yellow bus lanes along EDSA or else face apprehension. The MMDA and HPG will begin imposing stricter traffic management system along the southbound lane of Shaw Boulevard in Mandaluyong City to Guadalupe in Makati City.
According to MMDA and HPG, the areas mentioned are identified as chokepoints along EDSA. The announcement of the MMDA and HPG is in line with a long-standing rule that bans private vehicles from using the yellow bus lane except when they are about to turn into a side road or to enter the main thoroughfare from secondary roads.
According to Cabinet Secretary Jose Rene Almendras private vehicles caught using the yellow bus lanes, unless they are making a turn, will be apprehended.
The MMDA and HPG will deploy additional personnel to manage the flow of traffic, while barriers placed along EDSA will served as delineators for the lanes.
The decision of the MMDA is one of the efforts made by the national government to speed up travel along EDSA. Last September, the government deployed the HPG to man chokepoints along the major thouroughfare in a bid to ease worsening congestion in the country’s capital.
