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MANILA, Philippines—To get rid of fake bus stickers, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will issue new and color-coded segregation stickers for buses plying the Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (Edsa).
Francis Tolentino, MMDA chairman, said in a statement on Tuesday that the agency will distribute bus stickers, with colors green, yellow and orange, to operators free of charge.
“Bus operators and drivers have been resorting to using counterfeit stickers to defraud the enforcers so that they can load and unload passengers anywhere they please. “It’s high time to put an end to bus drivers’ wanton disregard of the law,” Tolentino said.
Under the new Transport and Traffic Memorandum Circular, Bus A stickers will be tagged with yellow stickers; Bus B with green stickers; and Bus C with orange stickers.
The measure aims to ease the traffic congestion along Edsa.
In 2012, the MMDA issued the Transport and Traffic Management Memorandum Circular No. 14, implementing the bus segregation scheme on the 24-kilometer thoroughfare.
The old scheme grouped buses into Buses A, B, and C with assigned loading and unloading bays per category.
Buses A and B can only use their designated A and B bus stops, respectively, while the C buses are allowed to use all bus stops.
Buses carrying green stickers will stop at the following Bus A loading and unloading bays:
Northbound
Magallanes
Buendia
Guadalupe
Shaw Boulevard
SM Megamall
Boni Serrano
Cubao-Farmers
Ermin Garcia
Southbound
Ermin Garcia
Arayat-Cubao
V.V. Soliven
Connecticut
Shaw Starmall
Guadalupe
Buendia Avenue
Mantrade
Buses with yellow stickers will stop at the following Bus B loading and unloading bays:
Northbound
Ayala Avenue
Estrella
Pioneer-Boni
SM Megamall
Ortigas Avenue
Main Avenue
Baliwag-5 Star
Southbound
Kamuning
Monte de Piedad
Main Avenue
POEA Ortigas
Pioneer-Boni
Estrella
Ayala Avenue
For buses with orange stickers, or previously Bus C, they are allowed to load and unload on all bus stops.
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