FIRST DAY OF MOTORBIKE LANE RULE NETS 249 VIOLATORS
20-Feb-12, 6:00 PM | Clara Masinag, InterAksyon.com
MANILA, Philippines – More than 200 violators fell into the net of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on Monday, the first day of the full coercion of the motorcycle lane policy along the complete 23.8-kilometer prolonged Epifanio De Los Santos Avenue after a a single week dry-run.
MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino pronounced that as of 1 p.m., at slightest 249 riders that strayed outward the blue lanes or the motorcycle line were flagged down and released trade defilement profits (TVR) and fined P500.
Of the 249, Tolentino pronounced 82 were flagged down in General Simon, Caloocan City; 68 in Orense, Makati; 43 in Roxas Boulevard; 42 in White Plains and fourteen from Quezon Avenue to Timog.
Even during the dry run that began February 14, General Simon surfaced the areas with the top number of apprehensions. A sum of 3,781 violators were held during the dry run and were done to bear a 15-minute road reserve seminar.
Apart from divining those who strayed over the blue lanes, trade enforcers also apprehended motorcyclists with no helmet, those wearing slippers, with additional passengers and poor headlights.
Traffic enforcers also have instructions to detain motorists on overloaded motorcycles, following regulations released by the Land Transportation Office (LTO) that a motorcycle should only have a single passenger or behind rider.
The group also reminded riders to follow is to regularly keep their motorcycle headlights on even during the daylight. A fortitude upheld by the Metro Manila Council (MMC) penalized violators of this policy with a P150 fine.
The MMC, whose members are the seventeen Metro mayors, is the policy-making body of the MMDA. The group has directed towards EDSA’s fourth line from the right path as the motorcycle lane, citing a investigate it conducted display that that line is the safest for motorcycle riders.
The initial two lanes of EDSA (going in a single direction) from the path are for use by open application vehicles and trucks with the third and fifth (“fast lane”) lanes for in isolation vehicles. MMDA census data showed that on normal 6,559 motorcycles transport on EDSA’s northbound line daily, and at slightest 5,173 on the southbound lane.
Similar schemes were already in place along the 12-5- kilometer prolonged Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City and Macapagal Boulevard in Pasay-Paranaque area.
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20-Feb-12, 6:00 PM | Clara Masinag, InterAksyon.com
MANILA, Philippines – More than 200 violators fell into the net of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on Monday, the first day of the full coercion of the motorcycle lane policy along the complete 23.8-kilometer prolonged Epifanio De Los Santos Avenue after a a single week dry-run.
MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino pronounced that as of 1 p.m., at slightest 249 riders that strayed outward the blue lanes or the motorcycle line were flagged down and released trade defilement profits (TVR) and fined P500.
Of the 249, Tolentino pronounced 82 were flagged down in General Simon, Caloocan City; 68 in Orense, Makati; 43 in Roxas Boulevard; 42 in White Plains and fourteen from Quezon Avenue to Timog.
Even during the dry run that began February 14, General Simon surfaced the areas with the top number of apprehensions. A sum of 3,781 violators were held during the dry run and were done to bear a 15-minute road reserve seminar.
Apart from divining those who strayed over the blue lanes, trade enforcers also apprehended motorcyclists with no helmet, those wearing slippers, with additional passengers and poor headlights.
Traffic enforcers also have instructions to detain motorists on overloaded motorcycles, following regulations released by the Land Transportation Office (LTO) that a motorcycle should only have a single passenger or behind rider.
The group also reminded riders to follow is to regularly keep their motorcycle headlights on even during the daylight. A fortitude upheld by the Metro Manila Council (MMC) penalized violators of this policy with a P150 fine.
The MMC, whose members are the seventeen Metro mayors, is the policy-making body of the MMDA. The group has directed towards EDSA’s fourth line from the right path as the motorcycle lane, citing a investigate it conducted display that that line is the safest for motorcycle riders.
The initial two lanes of EDSA (going in a single direction) from the path are for use by open application vehicles and trucks with the third and fifth (“fast lane”) lanes for in isolation vehicles. MMDA census data showed that on normal 6,559 motorcycles transport on EDSA’s northbound line daily, and at slightest 5,173 on the southbound lane.
Similar schemes were already in place along the 12-5- kilometer prolonged Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City and Macapagal Boulevard in Pasay-Paranaque area.
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