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EDIToR: DI&CE A, g^IGHEZ FRIDAY I SEPTEMBER 20, 2O]9

House! New EDSAbus

scheme set in 6 months
By JESS DIAZ Prcsident Duterte for his approval He said no traffic congestion gers will be strictly implemented,"
"This svstem will rationalize the would be created because the inner he said.
flow of bJses ard put a stop to thjs lanes frorrr Taft Avenue in Pasay He said while express bus lanes
The proposed centralized practice of overtaking, swerving City to North Avenue in Quezon would cater to passengers who also
and synchronized bus dispatch and speeding among bus drivers. Cit;/ and vice versa would be en- use ihe MRI city bus lanes would
system for EDSA will be rolled They will ioad and unload passen- closed and designaJed as express extend up to the Paraffaque Inte-
out within the next six months, gers strictly at designated stops one bus lanes. grated Terminal Exchange (lffX) in
according to the chairman of the at a time," he said. He added that the three lanes the south and the Valenzuela Inte- '
committee on transportation of Sarmiento, a civil engineer, said in the middle of EDSA would be grated Bus Terminal (VIBT) in the
the House of Representatives, that under the plan, the innermost dedicated to all types of private ve- north.
lane of the highway would serve hicles, subject to the eisting vehide "We are proposing this system
Samar Rep. Edgar Mary Sarmien- as an "express bus lane" that can reduction programs like the number to eradicate tte kanaa-knnua (each
to said during the Kapihan sa Ma- be accessed through stations used coding scheme. to his own) system # busei which
nila Bay forum on Wednesday that by the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) Private cars would be only al- compete with each othec creating
his committee, the D-epartfhdfit"df"'"Line 3. i ii r' lowed to use the outer lane when chaos through overtaking, speed-
Transportation @oTr) and the Meho "Like a carousel, the express turning into an intersection, in& and overstaying at intersections
Manila Development Authority bus lane will iust circle around Sarmiento said. and stops," he stressed.
(MMDA) are now going into the EDSA, duplicating the route of the He said the outer lane of EDSA Transp ortation Secretary Arthur
nitty-gritty of the new scheme de- MRT. People who use the MRT can or the yellow lane would be used Tugade eadier supported the pro-
siBned to ease kaffic congestion on have the option to ride the bus, as a dedicated city bus lane, which posed centralized and synchronized
Metro Manila's main highway. which will only load and unload will also adopt a centralized and bus dispatch system for EDSA.
He said the scheme would be passengers in a synchronized man- synchronized'dispatch system. Sarmienio said if die plan works,
ready for cor4puterized simulation ner at MRT stations so they are "Dedicaied bus stops would be car owners might consider using
before the end of the month and basically an extension of the MK[," estabiished one kilometer apart. public transportation instead of
would be presented soon after to he said. Loading and urLloading of passen- their vehicles.

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