{"id":120920,"date":"2017-10-03T02:04:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T06:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=120920"},"modified":"2017-10-03T02:04:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T06:04:19","slug":"police-highway-patrol-back-on-edsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/03\/police-highway-patrol-back-on-edsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Highway Patrol back on EDSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_120925\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120925\" style=\"width: 677px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/edsa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120925\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/edsa.png\" alt=\"\u201cWe have to make sure traffic is moving on EDSA,\u201d Orbos said in a statement.\u2029 (Photo by Judgefloro - Own work, CC0)\" width=\"677\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/edsa.png 677w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/edsa-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-120925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cWe have to make sure traffic is moving on EDSA,\u201d Orbos said in a statement.\u2029 <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=53052612\">(Photo by Judgefloro &#8211; Own work, CC0)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u2014\u00a0With the onset of the holiday season, the Inter-Agency Council (I-ACT) on Monday started the deployment of personnel from the Philippine National Police Highway Patrol Group (PNP-HPG) to augment the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) in decongesting traffic in EDSA.<\/p>\n<p>MMDA General Manager and concurrent Department of Transportation (DOTr) Undersecretary for Road Transport and Infrastructure Thomas Orbos said more than 20 PNP-HPG personnel were deployed in P. Tuazon to Connecticut\/White Plains in Quezon City while 40 additional personnel are positioned in other identified chokepoints in EDSA namely Balintawak, Cubao, Ortigas, Shaw Boulevard, Guadalupe and Taft Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to make sure traffic is moving on EDSA,\u201d Orbos said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The I-ACT chief attributed the efficient and seamless coordination among the agencies as the HPG was able to apprehend 54 violators of traffic rules during its operations Monday.<\/p>\n<p>These include 19 towed vehicles, one colorum vehicle impounded, nine motorcycles for not using helmet, 17 for illegal parking, seven for number coding violation, and one for disregarding traffic sign.<\/p>\n<p>MMDA Chairman Danilo Lim lauded the initiative of the I-ACT. \u2029\u2029\u201cWe need all the help we can get to cushion the expected rise in vehicular volume this Christmas season,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>I-ACT is an inter-agency body composed of DOTr, MMDA, PNP-HPG, Land Transportation Office (LTO), and Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) tasked to address traffic congestion in Metro Manila, Laguna, Rizal, Cavite, and Bulacan.<\/p>\n<p>The MMDA earlier said it expects the number of vehicles passing through EDSA to increase from 6,800 vehicles per direction to 7,500 vehicles as the Christmas season draws near.<\/p>\n<p>EDSA can only accommodate up to 6,000 vehicles per direction, it said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014\u00a0With the onset of the holiday season, the Inter-Agency Council (I-ACT) on Monday started the deployment of personnel from the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":120925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[390,25808,21409,25809,25810],"class_list":["post-120920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-edsa","tag-inter-agency-council-i-act","tag-metropolitan-manila-development-authority-mmda","tag-philippine-national-police-highway-patrol-group-pnp-hpg","tag-police-highway-patrol","mauthors-aerol-john-patena","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}