MMDA lifts coding scheme for Undas

The number coding scheme will be lifted today and tomorrow to allow people to enjoy the All Saints’ Day break, popularly known as Undas, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) said yesterday.

The Unified Vehicular Volume Reduction Program will be suspended in Metro Manila’s 16 cities and one town to ease traffic during the two-day holiday.

In another development, the Makati City government also closed several roads from midnight yesterday until midnight of Nov. 2: Kalayaan Avenue, from Zapote to N. Garcia; South Avenue, from Metropolitan Avenue to J.P. Rizal street; Vito Cruz, from South Avenue to Zapote street; and Pililla street, from J.P. Rizal to Kalayaan.

Motorists are advised to take J.P. Rizal Avenue if they are going from Guadalupe to Manila and vice versa.

Other alternate routes are from Ayala CBD to Circuit Makati: Take Ayala Avenue, left turn on Yakal street, right turn on Pasong Tamo; from Zapote to Ayala CBD: take J.P. Rizal Avenue, right turn on N. Garcia, left turn on Gil Puyat Avenue;

From EDSA/Jupiter area to Vito Cruz: left turn on N. Garcia, right turn on Gil Puyat Avenue; from Mandaluyong to CBD: take Makati Avenue; from Kamagong street to Jupiter street: right turn on Ayala Avenue, take loop Ayala /Gil Puyat Avenue loop, left turn on N. Garcia.

J.P. Rizal, from Pasong Tirad to Makati Avenue, and Kalayaan Avenue, from Pasong Tirad to Zapote, will be on a two-way traffic scheme. Kalayaan Avenue, from N. Garcia to Makati Avenue, and Metropolitan Avenue, from South Avenue to N. Garcia, will be on a one-way traffic scheme.

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