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: TUESDAY I SEPTE.MBER 17, 2OI9

Ban private cars


on EDSA during rush
hours - lawmaker
Private vehicles Emergency
should be banned {rom
traversing EDSA during
powers
rush hours, a lawmakei Meanwhile, senators
proposed yesterday in supported proposals to
anticipation of the ex- grant Prcsident Duterte ,
pected surge of Christmas emergency powe6 to
shoppers. address the worsening
Caloocan City Rep. traffic congestion in Metro
Edgar Erice said the major Manila and other parts of
thoroughfare in Metro the country.
Manila should be used Senators Bong Revilla
only by public utility ve- and Francis Tolentino
hicles (PUV) from 6 a.m. backed Transportation'
to 9 a.m. and from 6 p.m. Secretary Arthur Tugade's
to 9 p.m. daily. call to have the meaiure
"We should give prior- approved by Congress.
ity to the workers and Revilla filed yesterday '
those from the middle Senate.Resolution 133 call-
class families who have i?rg for a national public
no vehicles," he said. trar$port summit to come
Erice recommended up with a comprehensive
theproposal during the haffic management plan
budget hearing of the that would lay down short,
Metropolitan Manila medium and long term so-
DevelopmentAuthority .
lutiors to the traffic crisis.
(MMDA)., Tolentino, who filed
He. also proposed Senate Bill 213 seeking
to make EDSA a mass to grant Duterte emer-
transport highway {or genry powers, said traffic
PUVs a,fter the completion problems should not
of the Metro Rail Transit- undermine the capacity of
3 rehabilitatioru Metro Tugade "to lead the trans-
Manila subway project portation deparhnent and
and a road conaecting the perform the duties of his
northem and southem oflice."
Luzon expressways. Tolentino said Tugade
Celine Pialago. spokes- should not be blamed for
person for the MMDA, the traffic mess given the !
said they welcomed agency's limited resources '
Erice's proposal to solve and the lack of road space
traffic jams along EDSA. for the increasing num-
Erice said 300,000 pri- ber of vehides. - Delon
vate vehicles pass through Porcalla, Paolo Romerri,
EDSA daily compared to Marc Jayson Cayabyab,
&000 PUVs. Cecille Suerte Felipe

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