MOTORBIKE LANES ON EDSA ON VALENTINE'S DAY
24-Jan-12, 3:55 PM | Clara Masinag, InterAksyon.com
MANILA, Philippines – The motorcycle lane proposed by the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City and in the sepulchral commercial operation district in the Pasay-Paranaque reclaimed area will shortly be implemented on historic Edsa.
On Valentine’s Day, MMDA will begin implementing “Motorcycle Lane” on the 24-km Epifanio De Los Santos Avenue, anticipating to speed up traffic on the vital highway, whilst shortening occurrence of accidents involving motorbikes.
According to MMDA Assistant General Manager for Planning Tina Velasco, the group is right away bustling portrayal the “Blue Lanes” and putting up signages to inform the open of the plan.
Velasco pronounced the motorcycle line will be the fourth line from the sidewalk; the first two lanes are designated for city buses and the third line is for provincial buses. Following the order set in the motorcycle line it implemented along the 12.5-kilometer prolonged Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City, and the reclaimed area in Pasay, other vehicles can still use the EDSA motorcycle lane.
“That’s given we called it a directed towards –not a dedicated–motorcycle line because it equates to other vehicles can also use it,” Velasco explained. She pronounced the group has credited the motorcycle line with the decrease in fatal accidents involving motorcycles along Commonwealth, progressing dubbed the “Philippine torpedo highway.
The devise to exercise the intrigue along EDSA has been in the works given final year after the group adopted it along Commonwealth.
The augmenting number of lethal road accidents involving motorcycles stirred the MMDA to come up with the motorcycle lanes final year, along with the 60-km per hour speed extent on multiform thoroughfares, which motorcycle riders still have to follow despite their carrying their own lanes.
Data from the MMDA Road Safety Unit showed accidents involving motorcycles in Metro Manila have been rising— with 12,656 accidents and 104 fatalities in 2008; 13,561 accidents in 2009 with 105 deaths; and 16,208 with 177 fatalities in 2010.
The vast number of motorcycle riders concerned in lethal highway accidents has been traced to the miss of correct precision for them as well as the vast number of units plying the metropolis’ roadways.
Citing interpretation from the Land Transportation Office (LTO), the MMDA pronounced of the 1.7 million engine vehicles purebred in Metro Manila final year, 608,839 were motorcycles and tricycles or about 34.4 percent of the total number of vehicles registered. An estimated 7, 000 motorcycle units are sole national on a weekly basis.
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24-Jan-12, 3:55 PM | Clara Masinag, InterAksyon.com
MANILA, Philippines – The motorcycle lane proposed by the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City and in the sepulchral commercial operation district in the Pasay-Paranaque reclaimed area will shortly be implemented on historic Edsa.
On Valentine’s Day, MMDA will begin implementing “Motorcycle Lane” on the 24-km Epifanio De Los Santos Avenue, anticipating to speed up traffic on the vital highway, whilst shortening occurrence of accidents involving motorbikes.
According to MMDA Assistant General Manager for Planning Tina Velasco, the group is right away bustling portrayal the “Blue Lanes” and putting up signages to inform the open of the plan.
Velasco pronounced the motorcycle line will be the fourth line from the sidewalk; the first two lanes are designated for city buses and the third line is for provincial buses. Following the order set in the motorcycle line it implemented along the 12.5-kilometer prolonged Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City, and the reclaimed area in Pasay, other vehicles can still use the EDSA motorcycle lane.
“That’s given we called it a directed towards –not a dedicated–motorcycle line because it equates to other vehicles can also use it,” Velasco explained. She pronounced the group has credited the motorcycle line with the decrease in fatal accidents involving motorcycles along Commonwealth, progressing dubbed the “Philippine torpedo highway.
The devise to exercise the intrigue along EDSA has been in the works given final year after the group adopted it along Commonwealth.
The augmenting number of lethal road accidents involving motorcycles stirred the MMDA to come up with the motorcycle lanes final year, along with the 60-km per hour speed extent on multiform thoroughfares, which motorcycle riders still have to follow despite their carrying their own lanes.
Data from the MMDA Road Safety Unit showed accidents involving motorcycles in Metro Manila have been rising— with 12,656 accidents and 104 fatalities in 2008; 13,561 accidents in 2009 with 105 deaths; and 16,208 with 177 fatalities in 2010.
The vast number of motorcycle riders concerned in lethal highway accidents has been traced to the miss of correct precision for them as well as the vast number of units plying the metropolis’ roadways.
Citing interpretation from the Land Transportation Office (LTO), the MMDA pronounced of the 1.7 million engine vehicles purebred in Metro Manila final year, 608,839 were motorcycles and tricycles or about 34.4 percent of the total number of vehicles registered. An estimated 7, 000 motorcycle units are sole national on a weekly basis.
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