MMDA releases list of areas to undergo DPWH’s week-long road repair

FILE PHOTO: Motorists are seen enduring the heavy traffic along Edsa in this file photo taken in November 2021. INQUIRER.net file photo / JONATHAN VICENTE

MANILA, Philippines—The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on Thursday released the list of thoroughfares that will be affected by the Department of Public Works and Highways’ (DPWH) 24-hour road repair.

According to MMDA acting chair Don Artes, the agency only allowed roadworks by the DPWH starting April 5 until either April 10 or 11, depending on whether April 10 will be declared a holiday.

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The following areas will be affected by DPWH’s 24-hour roadworks:

1. Tandang Sora Avenue Quezon City (from Commonwealth Avenue going C-5)
2. Bonny Serrano Avenue Quezon City (corners of 15th Ave. and 20th Ave.)
3. EDSA Northbound Mandaluyong (Apo Street to Pioneer St., outermost lane; beside sidewalk)
4. EDSA Southbound Mandaluyong (after Gate 4 to EDSA Shrine)
5. Roxas Boulevard Northbound Pasay (between Lourdes St. & Vicente Sotto St.)
6. Roxas Boulevard Northbound Manila (between Remedios St. & Pasaje del Carmen St.)
7. Roxas Boulevard EDSA Flyover Southbound Pasay (bridge approach, outer & inner lane)
8. IBP – San Mateo Road Quezon City (fronting Robinson Easymart to Jollibee, 1st lane from center)
9. Luzon Avenue Southbound Quezon City (Congressional Ave. Extension to before Luzon Flyover, 1st lane from center)
10. Mindanao Avenue Northbound Quezon City (Uno Fuel to Chinabank, truck lane)
11. Payatas Road Quezon City bound to Batasan Road (before Maynilad Pumping Station to G3 Center, outer lane)
12. Payatas Road Quezon City bound to Batasan Road (Batasan Rd. to Bayanihan St. / Samar St. to Leyte St., outer lane)
13. G. Araneta Avenue Quezon City (Wayan St. to Mauban St., 1st lane from sidewalk)
14. Payatas Road Quezon City (Singko St. to Samar St., inner lane)

“We will only allow DPWH to conduct 24-hour road repairs which they commit to finish on time and implement properly in the same manner as they implemented it during last Holy Week’s road repairs,” Artes explained in a press conference in Pasig City.

READ: Road repairs set in parts of Metro Manila from March 27 – April 1 

In the same press briefing, the MMDA chief along with the DPWH also announced several road rehabilitation projects along Metro Manila, including the retrofitting of Edsa-Kamuning southbound flyover’s permanent bridges starting April 25.

The project, divided into four phases, would last about 11 months.

DPWH-National Capital Region project inspector Paul Chua noted, however, that the flyover would still be passable during the course of the retrofitting project.