SAKSI RECAP: Mahigit 39,000 bagong commercial vehicles, nadagdag sa mga kalsada sa bansa nitong Agosto (Originally aired on September 24, 2024)

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00:00Not a new motorist in Metro Manila is stuck in traffic and stuck in the heavy traffic of the vehicle.

00:10I'm slow.

00:12How are you slow, ma'am?

00:14Like him, it's already night and I haven't driven yet.

00:16The traffic is getting worse and worse.

00:19There's traffic all the time.

00:21There's no time that there's no traffic except in the early hours.

00:26Daisy is driving back and forth to Montalban, Rizal from her job in Quezon City.

00:32She says she's driving for two hours.

00:34It's slow.

00:36When I go to Litig, Montalban, I reach there at 11.

00:43When the truck meets the road, I'm already late.

00:50There are many reasons why there's traffic, like the roads and lines of the train.

00:55But there's also another reason.

00:57There are many vehicles.

00:59According to the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines and Truck Manufacturers Association,

01:04just this August, 39,115 new commercial vehicles were added to the roads in the country,

01:12including cars, SUVs, trucks, and buses.

01:15From January this year until August, 304,765 units of private vehicles were sold and used on the roads.

01:2510.3% more than 276,215 in the past two months.

01:33MMDA says this number is random in Metro Manila.

01:37According to the LTO, 80,000 vehicles are added to the roads every month,

01:47including motorcycles, buses, trucks, and 40% of them are registered in Metro Manila.

01:55This is the base.

01:58If you include the ones in Karatig Province,

02:02from time to time, they enter and exit Metro Manila.

02:08Maybe that's about 50%.

02:10According to their latest data in 2023,

02:12there are 3.6 million vehicles passing through Metro Manila every day.

02:17What we're doing is we're looking for alternative routes

02:22so that our countrymen have options.

02:28MMDA calls for the use of live lanes to reduce traffic.

02:33What's being complained about, aside from EDSA,

02:36is the traffic on Commonwealth Avenue.

02:38They say they're looking for a solution.

02:41Including the installation of a bus lane.

02:44We talked to our Traffic Engineering Center.

02:48This week, they're constructing a tunnel from Commonwealth Avenue

03:00to East Avenue and Quezon Avenue.

03:04They say 10,000 vehicles pass through Commonwealth Avenue and Quezon Avenue,

03:08and 8,000 pass through East Avenue.

03:10MMDA is planning to place the Suez-Chon in QCLGU, DPWH, and DOTR.

03:16For GMA Integrated News, I'm Nico Juage, your witness.

03:46For GMA Integrated News, I'm Nico Juage, your witness.

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