By Mike Frialde (The Philippine Star) Updated December 01, 2010
MANILA, Philippines – The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority has named an undersecretary as the “traffic czar” to lead a task force that will oversee the traffic situation along EDSA, which the MMDA has declared as a “special transport and traffic zone.”
Newly installed Undersecretary Alex Cabanilla said the creation of the special task force, which he will head, is a “management approach” by the MMDA to solve traffic gridlocks along EDSA.
Assisting Cabanilla will be MMDA assistant general manager for operations Emerson Carlos and district ground commander Epifanio Domingo. The task force will have 400 traffic enforcers deployed along EDSA’s 28-kilometer stretch.
“We will group our enforcers into teams that will be accountable for their respective areas. We will strengthen existing monitoring systems and put in place people who can be relied and depended upon to enforce traffic rules and regulations,” Cabanilla said.
Earlier, the MMDA, bracing for the expected heavy vehicular traffic flow in and around the Ayala Center in Makati City and at the Ortigas Center in Pasig City during the Christmas rush, had mapped out possible remedial measures with local traffic management executives and the administrators of the two commercial districts.
MMDA chairman Francis Tolentino said Ayala Center and the Ortigas Center contribute heavily to the volume of vehicular traffic along EDSA as these are the areas where the large shopping malls are located.
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