MMDA to replace PUB stickers next week

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MANILA — The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on Tuesday said that starting next week, it will replace bus segregation stickers it had previously issued to city buses with color-coded ones under the agency’s existing Bus Segregation scheme due to the proliferation of fake labels.

Under a new Transport and Traffic Memorandum Circular, Bus A stickers shall be changed with Green Stickers; Bus B with Yellow Stickers; and Bus C with Orange Stickers.

MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino said the measure will ensure the efficient and effective implementation of the bus segregation scheme with the end in view of solving the traffic congestion problem along EDSA.

“Bus operators and drivers have been resorting to using counterfeit stickers to defraud the enforcers so that they can load and unload passengers anywhere they please. “It’s high time to put an end to bus drivers’ wanton disregard of the law,” Tolentino said.

In 2012, MMDA, in its Transport and Traffic Management Memorandum Circular Number 14, implemented the Bus Segregation scheme along EDSA.

Under the scheme, buses plying EDSA have been tagged as Bus A, B, or C to minimize traffic congestion along the thoroughfare, particularly in loading and unloading areas.

Buses A and B can only use their designated A and B bus stops respectively.

“C” buses on the other hand, will be allowed to use all bus stops.

Buses with green stickers will load/unload at the following Bus A loading/unloading bays; Northbound: Magallanes, Buendia, Guadalupe, Shaw Blvd., SM Megamall, Boni Serrano, Cubao Farmers, and Ermin Garcia. Southbound: Ermin Garcia, Arayat Cubao, VV Soliven, Connecticut, Shaw Starmall, Guadalupe, Buendia Ave., and Mantrade.

Yellow-stickered buses, meanwhile, will stop at the following Bus B loading/unloading bays: Northbound: Ayala Ave., Estrella, Pioneer/Boni, SM Megamall, Ortigas Ave., Main Ave., and Baliwag/5 Star. Southbound: Kamuning, Monte de Piedad, Main Ave., POEA Ortigas, Pioneer/Boni, Estrella, and Ayala Avenue.

Buses with orange stickers or previously Bus C are allowed to load / unload on all bus stops.

According to Tolentino, the MMDA will provide bus operators of the corresponding stickers through the Bus Management Dispatch system Office, is free of charge.