PNP, MMDA team up to man traffic along EDSA
Posted by unang apluma on Thursday, November 4, 2010
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STARTING tomorrow, scores of policemen belonging to the Philippine National Police-Highway Patrol Group (PNP-HPG) will team up with traffic enforcers of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to help man traffic and strictly enforce traffic rules initially along the entire stretch of Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (Edsa).
MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino yesterday said the days of erring motorists who continue to wantonly disregard traffic rules and regulations are now numbered following the joint agreement between the MMDA and the PNP-HPG to put more teeth on traffic enforcement along Edsa and other major road arteries in Metro Manila.
“Together with the PNP, we are buttressing our efforts to put a stop to the horrors of congested roads, traffic moving at a snail’s pace or even stops to a standstill especially along Edsa. We will throw the book at undisciplined drivers who are so brazen in violating traffic laws,” Tolentino said.
“We have decided to join hands with the PNP and other concerned agencies to find honest-to-goodness answers to the perennial traffic problem and breakdown of discipline drivers,” he added.
The MMDA is now readying the deputation of some members of the PNP-HPG to form part of the strengthened composite teams of traffic enforcers that will man traffic along choke points which include portions of Pasay City, Baclaran in Parañaque, Taft Avenue in Manila, all along the north-bound and south-bound directions of Edsa.
Some PNP policewomen, together with their counterpart MMDA lady enforcers, have also been tapped to beef up the teams, according to Tolentino.
The MMDA chief, however, explained that the muscle of the law and the procedural and technical arms of the MMDA and other government agencies concerned can increase apprehension records. But procedures alone will not kill the problem, he quipped.
“Our collaborative efforts with the PNP is part of a long-term task that refers to the general picture, to educate our countrymen on obeying the law and instilling discipline on them,” he said.
MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino yesterday said the days of erring motorists who continue to wantonly disregard traffic rules and regulations are now numbered following the joint agreement between the MMDA and the PNP-HPG to put more teeth on traffic enforcement along Edsa and other major road arteries in Metro Manila.
“Together with the PNP, we are buttressing our efforts to put a stop to the horrors of congested roads, traffic moving at a snail’s pace or even stops to a standstill especially along Edsa. We will throw the book at undisciplined drivers who are so brazen in violating traffic laws,” Tolentino said.
“We have decided to join hands with the PNP and other concerned agencies to find honest-to-goodness answers to the perennial traffic problem and breakdown of discipline drivers,” he added.
The MMDA is now readying the deputation of some members of the PNP-HPG to form part of the strengthened composite teams of traffic enforcers that will man traffic along choke points which include portions of Pasay City, Baclaran in Parañaque, Taft Avenue in Manila, all along the north-bound and south-bound directions of Edsa.
Some PNP policewomen, together with their counterpart MMDA lady enforcers, have also been tapped to beef up the teams, according to Tolentino.
The MMDA chief, however, explained that the muscle of the law and the procedural and technical arms of the MMDA and other government agencies concerned can increase apprehension records. But procedures alone will not kill the problem, he quipped.
“Our collaborative efforts with the PNP is part of a long-term task that refers to the general picture, to educate our countrymen on obeying the law and instilling discipline on them,” he said.
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