Even as motorists in Metro Manila braced for “carmageddon” on Friday night, traffic on Edsa was nothing out of the ordinary, contrary to the earlier warning of traffic-beating app Waze. Some motorists may have opted to take alternate routes, Bong Nebrija, the MMDA operations supervisor, noted. But he added that for standstill traffic to occur, factors like lane blockages and bad weather should be present. It was just like the regular weekday traffic,” he noted. ADVERTISEMENTTwitter user @GheWhaaat also said that traffic on Edsa on Friday was “bearable.”“It seems that everyone got scared of the supposedly carmageddon,” she observed.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 23, 2017 21:00 UTC