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The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) announced that
the plan is under way to construct concrete dividers along the
entire stretch of the Epifanio delos Santos Avenue to keep public
utility buses (PUBs) within the yellow lanes.
MMDA’s Traffic Engineering Center said the
yellow lane “separators” are concrete strips that are high
enough to prevent errant PUBs from going out of the yellow lanes,
where they are supposed to stay.
These “separators” would also help slow down
traffic in the inner lanes that are reserved for private vehicles
and other public utility vehicles.
“We have noticed that despite our strict
prohibition, bus drivers still get out of the yellow lanes whenever
they have the chance to do so. So we have put up these separators
which will serve as the yellow lane fence,” MMDA Chairman Bayani
Fernando said.
Yellow lanes are the outermost lanes in EDSA
that the agency has designated exclusively for provincial and city
buses.
Fernando said these “separators” are now
being experimented on the portion of EDSA from Guadalupe to Estrella.
He said since the construction of the “separators” at the
Guadalupe to Estrella portion of Edsa, they have noticed a marked
improvement in the traffic at the area.
The MMDA chief said besides the buses, the
“separators” would also keep away private vehicles from the
yellow lanes. “With these separators, private vehicles can now
travel along EDSA without being slowed down by buses that mix with
them in the inner lanes,” he said.
Fernando said the yellow lane separators would
be properly marked with reflectorized cones and collapsible bollards
to prevent accidents.
-- Cris G. Odronia
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