MANILA – The Expanded Unified Vehicular Volume Reduction Program (UVRP), or number coding scheme, including the no window hours shall be implemented starting Nov. 2, 2016 from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., according to an advisory issued by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA).
The number coding will be implemented along EDSA, C5, Recto Avenue, Quirino Avenue, Araneta Avenue, C6, Roxas Boulevard, Taft Avenue, SLEX, Shaw Boulevard, Ortigas Avenue, Magsaysay Boulevard, Aurora Boulevard, Quezon Avenue, Commonwealth Avenue, A. Bonifacio Avenue, Rizal Avenue, Del Pan, Marcos Highway, McArthur Highway, Alabang-Zapote Road (Muntinlupa), Samson Road (Caloocan), and A. Mabini Street (Caloocan).
Meanwhile, the following vehicles are automatically exempted from the UVRP based on MMDA Memorandum Circular Number 3, Series of 2011:
– Ambulance, fire trucks, police patrol cars, military vehicles with permanent marking indicating the vehicles as such. Ambulance and fire trucks, which are privately owned and properly marked as such, shall likewise be exempted;
– Vehicles commandeered by the government directed by a person in authority/or by a medical practitioner for military relief or emergency purposes;
– Vehicles carrying person/s needing immediate medical attention;
– Diplomatic vehicles with diplomatic plates;
– Government vehicles with government plates or appropriate LTO stickers with permanent markings expressly showing the name of government agency or office, including those vehicles of members of Congress with officially issued LTO Protocol plates while being utilized in the performance of their functions;
– MMDA accredited tow trucks, provided that the accreditation papers must be carried and ready for presentation upon request.
– Vehicles on a mission to carry relief goods to identified calamity or highly depressed areas.
– Motorcycles provided that motorcycle drivers are complying with the prescribed motorcycle helmets under the Republic Act 10054.
– Official and marked media vehicles.
School buses and company shuttle vehicles; unmarked vehicles of media practitioners; emergency care doctors; persons with disabilities; vehicles for perishable goods and Department of Tourism accredited tourism vehicles may apply for an exemption from the UVRP subject to evaluation and approval.