Vehicular flow on Edsa, Metro Manila’s busiest thoroughfare, has improved a great deal thanks to the Duterte administration’s traffic-control measures, according to Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade. Busway projectAccording to Tugade, travel time on Edsa from Caloocan City (Monumento) to Pasay City has been reduced from nearly three hours to just around 45 minutes. He attributed this to the implementation of the Edsa Busway project in June last year, when passenger buses were allowed to resume operations despite the pandemic, provided they limit their capacity. Under the project, buses were restricted to a single lane and bus stops were set up along the “center island” or traffic median. “From numerous plans, schemes, and proposals to decongest Edsa, having most of them either highly criticized or defied, the transformation of our main thoroughfare is well underway with the establishment of the Edsa Busway,” Tugade said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 27, 2021 21:00 UTC