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MANILA, Sept. 8 (PNA) – Malacanag has received reports that slight improvement of traffic flow has been recorded along EDSA during the first day of deployment of Highway Patrol Group (HPG) in six choke points of the 23.8-kilometer road last Monday.
”We experienced progress on those choke points like in Balintawak where vendors along the road have been removed,” Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said in a Radyo ng Bayan interview on Tuesday.
Coloma, however, admitted that heavy traffic still has been noticed in the area of Cubao, Ortigas and Shaw boulevard.
”It is because there are too many vehicles in those areas that usually made traffic congested. This will be addressed continually by the HPG and MMDA as well as LTO and LTFRB,” Coloma explained.
Aside from Metro Manila Development Authority, Land Transportation Office and Land Transportation and Franchising Regulatory Board, Coloma said traffic personnel of the local government units covering EDSA have also been helping in decongesting traffic.
Coloma reiterated the government’s appeal for cooperation to everybody, particularly commuters and drivers of the public utility vehicles to solve the traffic congestion not only along EDSA but other major thoroughfares in Metro Manila.
”That’s the most important — multi-sectoral, multi-stakeholder and unified citizen action and support are needed. Let’s help each other. Everybody’s action can help such as the observance of traffic rules and regulations,” Coloma said.
He also thanked the city bus operators and provincial bus operators for cooperating with the government.
”I think our bus drivers will understand our efforts because it is them who will benefit in our effort to decongest traffic,” Coloma said. (PNA) CTB/JFM
