MMDA taps LRT-2 project contractor to ease traffic woes on Marcos H-way

TO EASE traffic on Marcos Highway, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is turning for help to personnel from the construction company behind the Light Rail Transit-2 (LRT-2) extension project.

Following the creation of the Interagency Committee on Traffic Management (IACT), MMDA General Manager Thomas Orbos said last week that they would deputize DMCI traffic personnel to address congestion on the major road which cuts through the cities of Marikina, Pasig and Antipolo.

“We have to address and ease the traffic situation on Marcos Highway as soon as possible with traffic measures such as the deployment of traffic personnel and come out with a rerouting plan,” Orbos said.

Apart from the ongoing rail extension project which stretches from Ligaya in Pasig City to Masinag in Antipolo City, other causes for heavy traffic on the busy thoroughfare are the pavement improvement works in Barangay Mayamot, Antipolo City, the big volume of vehicles and lack of discipline among motorists.

Coming soon: CCTV cams

Orbos said that they would also install six closed circuit television cameras on Marcos Highway to monitor the traffic situation in real time.

To ease traffic in the area, the MMDA has announced the following rerouting scheme:

• Vehicles from Cubao/

Katipunan to Antipolo will take Aurora Boulevard, then right on Katipunan, C.P. Garcia Avenue (C5), left on Ortigas Avenue Extension toward destination and vice versa;

• Vehicles coming from Cubao/Katipunan to Antipolo will take A. Bonifacio Avenue (to Marikina City proper), straight to Sumulong Highway toward destination and vice versa;
• Vehicles coming from Antipolo to Quezon City will take Ortigas Avenue Extension, then left on Kaytikling toward Taytay Palengke, East Bank Service Road, left on Legaspi Bridge, left on C. Raymundo toward destination and vice versa;
• Vehicles from Cainta, Rizal to C-5, Quezon City from Felix Avenue left on Kaginhawaan Street/Magsaysay Street, right on Amang Rodriguez Avenue, left on Calle Industria to C.P. Garcia (C5) toward destination and vice versa;

•Vehicles from Cainta, Rizal via Valley Golf to Cubao, Quezon City from Ortigas Avenue Extension left Don Celso Tuazon Avenue, take Sumulong Highway toward destination and vice versa.