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MOTORISTS will have to endure two more weeks of
bothersome traffic as the Metro Manila Development Authority
completes its concrete reblocking on Edsa.
Chairman Bayani Fernando of the
MMDA said the agency can finish the repairs within two weeks that is
if everything goes smoothly.
To date the agency has already
completed more than 80 percent of the repairs of deteriorating
portions of the 24-kilometer highway since it started last year.
“I am asking the motorists to
bear with us for another two weeks . . . by that time the whole
stretch of Edsa will be free of damage,” said Fernando in an
interview Friday.
The concrete reblocking of the
MMDA have been ongoing since May last year and was temporarily
suspended in December to give way to the Christmas rush.
Repairs usually start at about 10
p.m. Friday until early morning Monday to somehow avoid the morning
rush hour.
The agency has been doing
concrete reblocking on damage portions of the 24-kilometer highway
from Edsa Rotonda in Pasay City to Edsa/North Avenue in Quezon City
as part of the “Seven Major Roads” program of the agency.
The program involves the
rehabilitation and improvement of Commonwealth Avenue, Edsa, Quezon
Avenue, MacArthur Highway, Circumferential Road, or C-5, Radial
Road, or R-10, and Marcos Highway.
Besides road repairs the MMDA is
also doing some sidewalk rehabilitation and installation of
additional lampposts and other street furniture for the use of
pedestrians.
Meanwhile, motorist should expect
heavy traffic congestion this weekend as the MMDA closes the Cubao
underpass on Edsa to give way to the concrete reblocking.
The agency is suggesting that
motorists, especially the private vehicle owners, use alternate
routes like C-5 road, and other secondary streets this weekend in
order to avoid traffic congestion and not to add to the volume of
vehicles plying Edsa.
-- Jefferson Antiporda
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