Oh, no they didn’t! (But, yes, they did.)
“The prospect of vehicles moving through EDSA at only one to nine kilometers per hour prompted the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to propose a four-day school week to the Department of Education (DepEd),” reports Jaymee T. Gamil and Maricar B. Brizuela in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
MMDA Chair Francis Tolentino made this suggestion on Thursday, Feb 13. He wants his proposal to apply to “all elementary and high schools in Metro Manila in the hopes of reducing the daily volume of commuters.”
Tolentino explained that traffic would be “so bad” because 15 major infrastructure projects will be done in Metro Manila this year.
These are the major road projects that are expected to make metro traffic more hellish than usual:
1. Skyway Stage 3
2. NAIA Expressway Phase 2
3. Gil Puyat-Makati Avenue-Paseo de Roxas Underpass
4. Sta. Monica-Lawton Avenue Bridge
5. C.P. Garcia Avenue-McKinley Hill ramp
6. Repair and asphalt overlay of Magallanes Interchange
7. EDSA-Taft Avenue flyover 8. MRT Line 3/ LRT Line 1 extension common station
9. LRT Line 2 East extension up to Masinag
10. LRT Line 1 extension (Cavite)
11. EDSA-Roosevelt Avenue Interchange
12. España Avenue-Lacson Avenue Interchange
13. Repair/rehabilitation and improvement of South Superhighway Makati
14. NLEx-SLEx connector road above the PNR alignment
15. EDSA-West Avenue-North Avenue Interchange
Who scheduled all of these to be done this year? (We’d like to meet that person, really.)
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