{"id":59168,"date":"2015-08-17T22:51:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=59168"},"modified":"2015-08-17T22:51:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:51:25","slug":"mmda-to-install-barriers-in-edsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/17\/mmda-to-install-barriers-in-edsa\/","title":{"rendered":"MMDA to install barriers in Edsa"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_43690\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43690\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/edsa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43690\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/edsa-300x222.png\" alt=\"EDSA &quot;carmageddon&quot; during the 29th anniversary of EDSA People Power celebrations (Amanda Fernandez \/ Twitter)\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/edsa-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/edsa.png 596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EDSA &#8220;carmageddon&#8221; during the 29th anniversary of EDSA People Power celebrations (Amanda Fernandez \/ Twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212;\u00a0The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority announced on Sunday that it would put up concrete barriers in two areas on the northbound and southbound lanes of Edsa beginning today.<\/p>\n<p>MMDA Chair Francis Tolentino said this is to discourage swerving which may lead to accidents and result in heavy traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Tolentino noted that the snail-paced traffic flow in the past weeks were due to accidents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From Thursday until Friday, we noted around 40 accidents on Metro streets,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that motorists fail to realize that accidents, even the minor ones could cause heavy traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Tolentino also identified what he described as &#8220;traffic conflict areas&#8221; where the concrete barriers will be placed.<\/p>\n<p>The areas include Edsa northbound in Guadalupe, Makati City and Edsa southbound after Connecticut in San Juan City.<\/p>\n<p>Tolentino also said that the move will reduce accidents and ensure the safety of motorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212;\u00a0The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority announced on Sunday that it would put up concrete barriers in two areas on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":43690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59168","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=59168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}