Metro traffic one and a half years under PRRD
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HE the higher throughput of North Luzon Expressway - come feature of the new carriageway is not only the superb night-time illumination of LED arrays but the gently radiused “S” curves marked by solid white road markings for several bridges and their approaches. Recall that this NLEx segment was planned in the 1970s, when highway designs preferred arrow-straight alignments that, coupled with strict speed limit enforcement, induced monotonous highway drowsiness and drivers falling asleep behind the wheel. The remedy that French and Japanese highway designers introduced was to course the highway in an alternating curve route albeit at very gentle radii. Strictly observed, the gently-curving solid white lines on the NLEx bridges actually achieve the same effect of preventing highway hypnosis. The NLEx 130 mph, if only doing so wasn’t illegal.
Elsewhere on the older part of the NLEx, new auxiliary exits at Meycauayan Pandayan and Libtong, along with Valenzuela’s Lingunan, have Similar construction is being studied for the Angeles-Magalang exit where the old Magalang southbound on-ramp may be re-introduced if only to shared by Toyota Angeles, Ayala’s Marquee Place and Marquee Mall.
Gotcha by GATSO
With more lanes on the NLEx, speed now rears its ugly head. Having failed 100% speed-reading accuracy for mobile or hand held LIDAR case of clumsy speed gun misreading by MATES/SLEx, NLEX Corp. leveled up by getting Tritec Integrated’s GATSO HD video monitoring - monwealth, Gulf States and Middle East drivers for decades, GATSO is known for its vandal-proof bulky grey boxes and their ability to shoot clear images of speeding violators at night, even with all lanes occupied. The eagle-eyed among you will spot these devices mounted on galvanized poles beside CCTV modules on the blue painted bunkers with yellow whole of NLEx has been covered by these sophisticated all- weather sentinels, allowing night- time tollway’s end. CAVITEx will have GATSOs by March this year. What is needed is contact-less ticketing just like MMDA’s “May Huli Ka MMDA will soon be acquiring GATSOs. Commonwealth and Maca
Projected traffic because of “Build Build Build”
In the medium term, the looming introduction of a Japanese loan-funded Keenly watched by Senator Grace Poe, this all the more cries for quick acceptance of Metro Pac’s offer to buy out the MRT-3 consortium and operations contract. This is where emergency powers can help, if only to accelerate the vetting process and the necessary Swiss Challenge. Now this may be the time to utilize its emergency powers. If the MRT-3 works just crowd EDSA.
HOV positive and 50 the new 60
then suspended the HOV or High Occupancy Vehicle concept on EDSA. What used to be a three-passenger and more exemption to the odd-even scheme in 1995 turned lane one, by the median, as the exclusive lane for vehicles with two passengers or more. As pre couldn’t penetrate opaque windshield tints to verify the passenger count. Meanwhile, as Quezon City reintroduces lowered speed limits across its major roads, the MMDA wants to decrease the 60-70 km/h speed limit on EDSA, Commonwealth and C-5 at certain times of the day to 50km/h in a bid to reduce accidents. We believe it was the Dutch and the Scandinavians who, back in the ‘90s, campaigned worldwide for the reduction at in-town or built-up areas to reduce fatal pedestrian encounters. This isn’t all that new when you remember that when Clark, Subic and John Hay were US bases, the speed limit on their narrow “highways” was 35 mph, which translates to 50km/h in the metric system.
As for ex-MMDA chief Tim Orbos, well, he still gets our sympathy whenever he jokes about EJT (extra-judicial-transport) means of transportation (“habal-habal”, illegal Uber/Grab units, colorum “padyaks”) despite the intolerant gaze of his formerly jovial boss. Might his boss’