In a span of 30 minutes, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority has issued 23 tickets for illegally parked vehicles while two were towed in a day’s clearing operations along Panay Avenue in Quezon City, which is part of Mabuhay Lane route #1, as the agency continues to ease heavy traffic flow on major thoroughfares, particularly EDSA.
Illegally parked vehicles were ticketed and towed. The penalty for attended illegally parked vehicles is P1,000 while unattended illegally parked vehicles will be fined P2,000.
Towed vehicles will be brought to the agency’s impounding area in Tumana, Marikina.
MMDA Chairman Romando Artes said the agency will conduct regular clearing operations on all Mabuhay Lanes which serve as alternate routes for EDSA.
“We are closely coordinating with LGUs and the DILG to ensure that these roads will be maintained obstruction-free.”
“The MMDA is serious in its bid to decongest EDSA and provide motorists with alternate routes that are passable and free from obstructions. We are closely coordinating with the local government units and the Department of Interior and Local Government to ensure that these roads will be maintained obstruction-free,” Artes stressed.
The traffic chief also said that the agency targets to totally clear Metro Manila roads within three months.
“We want to ensure that at the end of our term, we will turn over obstruction-free and orderly Metro Manila roads to the next administration.”
“We want to ensure that at the end of our term, we will turn over obstruction-free and orderly Metro Manila roads to the next administration,” the traffic head stressed.
Meanwhile, he said that there is still no need to expand the number coding as vehicle volume is still below the pre-pandemic levels.
Artes also said that the increase in gasoline prices is a possible factor to the lesser number of vehicles traversing EDSA.
