The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) plans to extend for one more week the test run of a traffic scheme designating a high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane along Edsa.
MMDA operations supervisor Bong Nebrija said the extension was being considered to better familiarize motorists with the scheme and address difficulties encountered by traffic enforcers, especially when checking the occupancy of cars with heavily tinted windows.
The HOV lane refers to the highway’s innermost lane—the one nearest the MRT line—which the MMDA marked for the exclusive use of vehicles carrying two or more persons.
Of the 15,810 cars recorded to have used the HOV lane during the dry run that started on Dec. 11, only 3,529 were clearly observed to have met the required number of occupants, while the majority—or 8,314 cars—could not be easily checked because of their tinted windows. —Jovic Yee
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