Lawmakers urged Metro Manila Development Authority and local chief executives to consider reimplementing the odd-even traffic scheme, which they claimed would reduce the volume of cars on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue by at least 60 percent.
Quezon City (1st district) Rep. Vincent Crisologo, during a House committee hearing on Monday, proposed to the MMDA to enforce an added odd-even policy along the 24-km. highway, on top of the present Unified Vehicular Volume Reduction Program, or the number coding scheme.
“For example, it’s Monday today, sa Edsa ‘even’ ang pwede, ‘odd’ ang bawal. So ang pupuwede sa Edsa ngayon (cars with plate numbers ending in) two, four, six, eight, and zero. Pero dahil Lunes ang (cars with plate number ending in number) two bawal. So ‘yung (cars with plate numbers ending in) four, six, eight, and zero lang ang puwede,” he said.
Under the present policy, two ending plates are banned to use main roads in Metro Manila daily.
Other lawmakers are also proposing increasing the number of banned ending plates per day to three.