Para maibsan ang traffic sa Commonwealth Avenue, pinag-aaralan ng Metro Manila Development Authority o MMDA ang paglalagay ng bus lane rito.
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00:00The holiday season is just around the corner.
00:03It's time to expect more traffic.
00:06Do you get stuck in traffic, especially during the holiday rush?
00:10You know, Susan, that's why I've been riding my motorcycle for the past 9 years.
00:13Every day, because I don't want to get stuck in traffic.
00:15But even if I ride my motorcycle, when there's traffic, I get stuck.
00:18You get stuck, right?
00:19But it's rare.
00:20Yeah, because it's not hard to get stuck in traffic.
00:22Yeah, especially when it's heavy traffic.
00:24Yeah, right? It's hard to get stuck.
00:26You know, Susan, one of the problems with traffic
00:29is Commonwealth Avenue.
00:31To make up for that, the MMDA decided to add a bus lane
00:35like a bus carousel in EDSA.
00:37That's the breaking news this afternoon
00:39with Mico Juaez.
00:46You're one of those who can't help but pass
00:48Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City.
00:51Last year, according to the MMDA,
00:53407,988 are the average number of cars
00:57every day on Commonwealth Avenue,
01:00which is the widest road in the country.
01:02With that number, you might wonder
01:05why there's so much traffic
01:07in the morning and at night,
01:08aside from cars.
01:10Daisy, for example,
01:11has to travel 2 hours every day
01:13from Quezon City to Montalban, Rizal.
01:15It's hard.
01:17When I go to Litig, Montalban,
01:22I get there at 11am.
01:25Once the trucks and buses meet,
01:29it's really over.
01:31The MMDA says they're looking for solutions
01:33to traffic on Commonwealth Avenue.
01:35The addition of a bus lane.
01:38We talked to the Traffic Engineering Center.
01:41This week,
01:43they're working on the Commonwealth.
01:47One of the studies is to put a tunnel
01:52from Commonwealth to East Avenue
01:55and Quezon Avenue.
01:57It's not yet clear how the Commonwealth
02:00will distribute the bus carousel,
02:01just like the EDSA bus carousel
02:03that was opened in 2020.
02:05But within the 4 years
02:06that the EDSA bus carousel runs,
02:08it hasn't decreased,
02:09but the average daily volume
02:12of cars in EDSA has increased.
02:13And it's also noticeable this year,
02:15from January to August,
02:17304,765 units of private vehicles
02:21were sold and used on the road.
02:24That's 10.3 percent more
02:26than 276,215 in the same month of 2023.
02:31Just last month,
02:32according to the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers
02:35of the Philippines
02:36and Truck Manufacturers Association,
02:3839,155 commercial vehicles
02:41were added to the roads in the country,
02:43including trucks.
02:45The MMDA said this number is random
02:47in Metro Manila.
02:48According to the LTO,
02:5180,000 vehicles are added to us every month,
02:58including motorcycles,
03:00buses, trucks,
03:02and 40 percent of them are registered
03:05in Metro Manila.
03:06So, it's based here.
03:08If you include the ones
03:11in Karatig Province,
03:13from time to time,
03:15they come and go in and out of Metro Manila.
03:19That's about 50 percent.
03:21In 2023,
03:22there were 3.6 million vehicles
03:24traveling in Metro Manila every day.
03:26What we're doing is
03:28we're looking for alternative roads
03:31or routes
03:32so that our countrymen
03:35have options.
03:37To reduce the traffic,
03:39the MMDA called for living lanes.
03:43For GMA Integrated News,
03:45I'm Mico Juage,
03:46and that's the latest news you need to know.
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