Let’s hope this strategy works.
“Starting Monday, September 29, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will turn off the newly installed traffic lights on Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City during the weekday morning and afternoon rush hour to ease heavy traffic in the area, especially in the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) campus,” reports Maricar B. Brizuela in Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Instead, MMDA Chair Francis Tolentino explained that he would “deploy additional traffic constables to direct vehicular flow on the busy thoroughfare with the shutdown of the traffic signals for the 6am-to-9am shift and the 3pm-to-6pm shift from Mondays to Fridays.”
Moreover, “zipper lanes” will also be opened on the northbound side from 6am to 9am on weekdays.”
However, the traffic lights will remain operational for the rest of the day.
Cris Saruca, MMDA Traffic Discipline Office head, added that there was “a need to override the two signal lights to speed up traffic flow, particularly for vehicles not entering ADMU or Miriam College.”
Meanwhile, Tolentino stated that they would try out this traffic scheme for a few weeks. If it doesn’t work, then they’ll “adjust again.
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