{"id":42176,"date":"2019-04-12T11:14:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T03:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=42176"},"modified":"2019-04-12T17:14:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T09:14:46","slug":"mmda-implements-new-60-kph-speed-limit-on-edsa-and-other-major-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2019\/04\/12\/mmda-implements-new-60-kph-speed-limit-on-edsa-and-other-major-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"MMDA Implements New 60-kph Speed Limit on EDSA and Other Major Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will be implementing the <strong>60 kilometers per hour (kph) speed limit<\/strong> on major thoroughfares in Metro Manila.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/edsa-traffic.jpg\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>EDSA<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under the MMDA Regulation No. 19-001 published in newspapers on Thursday, April 4, the MMDA will start apprehending motorists except trucks and buses driving beyond 60-kph on the following circumferential and radial roads:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Circumferential Roads<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recto Avenue<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pres. Quirino Avenue<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Araneta Avenue<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">EDSA<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CP Garcia Avenue<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southeast Metro Manila Expressway<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Radial Roads<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roxas Boulevard<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taft Avenue<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SLEX<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shaw Boulevard<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ortigas Avenue<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Magsaysay Boulevard \/Aurora Boulevard<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quezon Avenue\/ Commonwealth\u00a0Avenue<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Bonifacio Avenue<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rizal Avenue<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Del Pan\/Marcos Highway\/McArthur Highway<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Violators will be fined Php 1,000 for each apprehension. MMDA has yet to set a definite date for its implementation as it still has to\u00a0conduct an information drive on the policy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The speed limit for trucks and buses remains at 50-kph.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LOOK: MMDA Regulation No. 19-002 prohibiting\/revoking business permits of public utility bus terminals an operators, as we as other PUV terminals along EDSA <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rapplerdotcom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rapplerdotcom<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7LFXdwHM1o\">pic.twitter.com\/7LFXdwHM1o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aika Rey (@reyaika) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reyaika\/status\/1114024156155092992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the announcement, MMDA attributed vehicular accidents to overspeeding. MMDA reported 110,025 crash incidents happened in Metro Manila last year or about 299 incidents daily.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Department of Health (DOH) Calabarzon revealed the MMDA data showing the top three cities with the highest number of road crash cases, such as Quezon City with 35,494; Makati with 11,425 and Manila with 11,315. Data is as of September 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/IMG_0141_marked.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0141_marked\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Roxas Boulevard in Manila<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Also read: <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2019\/03\/28\/mmda-imposes-no-window-hours-scheme-to-all-major-roads-in-metro-manila\/\" target=\"_blank\">MMDA Imposes \u201cNo Window Hours\u201d Scheme to All Major Roads in Metro Manila<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2018\/08\/14\/regulation-on-driving-alone-on-edsa-starts-august-15\/\" target=\"_blank\">Regulation on Driving Alone on EDSA Starts August 15<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/227482-metro-manila-set-speed-limit-fine-major-roads\" target=\"_blank\">Rappler<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/manilastandard.net\/news\/national\/291903\/mmda-60-kph-speed-limit-on-edsa-could-be-up-by-april-9.html\" target=\"_blank\">Manila Standard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pna.gov.ph\/articles\/1048503\" target=\"_blank\">Philippine News Agency<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violators will be fined Php 1,000 for each apprehension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[266,241,4325,8631],"class_list":["post-42176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-edsa","tag-mmda","tag-slex","tag-speed-limit-in-the-philippines"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/edsa-traffic-e1555403181293.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42253,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42176\/revisions\/42253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}