{"id":249315,"date":"2020-03-20T18:48:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T22:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=249315"},"modified":"2020-03-20T18:48:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T22:48:47","slug":"slex-assigns-priority-lanes-for-goods-emergency-health-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/20\/slex-assigns-priority-lanes-for-goods-emergency-health-services\/","title":{"rendered":"SLEX assigns priority lanes for goods, emergency health services"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_239292\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-239292\" style=\"width: 3648px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Pic_geo_photos_-_phmmmuntinlupaslex_-_view_from_bilibid_overpass_-philippines-2015-0428-ls-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-239292\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Pic_geo_photos_-_phmmmuntinlupaslex_-_view_from_bilibid_overpass_-philippines-2015-0428-ls-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3648\" height=\"2736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Pic_geo_photos_-_phmmmuntinlupaslex_-_view_from_bilibid_overpass_-philippines-2015-0428-ls-.jpg 3648w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Pic_geo_photos_-_phmmmuntinlupaslex_-_view_from_bilibid_overpass_-philippines-2015-0428-ls--300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Pic_geo_photos_-_phmmmuntinlupaslex_-_view_from_bilibid_overpass_-philippines-2015-0428-ls--768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Pic_geo_photos_-_phmmmuntinlupaslex_-_view_from_bilibid_overpass_-philippines-2015-0428-ls--1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3648px) 100vw, 3648px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-239292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: South Luzon Expressway looking northbound from Susana Heights (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=54468580\">Photo: Patrickroque01 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; SMC Tollways has assigned priority lanes at the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) to ensure efficient delivery of basic goods and emergency health services to and from Metro Manila and neighboring provinces in the south.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">San Miguel Corporation (SMC) president and chief operating officer Ramon Ang said these priority lanes along SLEX will ensure the unimpeded flow of delivery trucks that carry basic goods to various areas, raw materials to production facilities as well as vehicles that bring medical personnel, equipment, and supplies.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWe are doing this to guarantee that essential deliveries reach their destination as smoothly and quickly as possible,\u201d Ang said in a statement Friday, adding \u201cthese same lanes can also be used by emergency health vehicles to quickly get to places in need of medical attention.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">For faster processing of vehicles, companies are advised to prepare the government-required cargo documents and for delivery personnel to follow checkpoint procedures.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Philippine National Police\u2019s inspection teams are located before the Susana Heights exit (southbound) and along the Alabang-Filinvest Interchange before SLEX Alabang northbound exit.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Like in other areas in the country, these inspection teams were established to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Earlier, SMC Tollways also announced safety measures to protect both motorists and tollway employees.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">These include the availability of alcohol dispensers at all toll plazas and SMC Tollways facilities, the wearing of face masks and surgical gloves by tellers and traffic personnel, and the sanitation of toll booths and patrol vehicles before and after each shift.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">To prevent contamination and hasten traffic flow, SMC Tollways is encouraging the use of radio-frequency identification (RFID) facility to reduce the chance of contamination and hasten traffic flow going in and out of Metro Manila.\u00a0<em><strong>(PR)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; SMC Tollways has assigned priority lanes at the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) to ensure efficient delivery of basic goods &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":239292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249315","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249316,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249315\/revisions\/249316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}