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