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MMDA: Expect heavy EDSA traffic with weeklong road repairs slated
THE Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is expecting heavy traffic along Epifanio delos Santos Avenue due to a week-long repair works along the stretch of EDSA Bus Way from Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City to Munoz Street in Quezon City beginning Friday night.
The emergency asphalt overlay and reblocking on both lanes of the EDSA Bus Carousel will be conducted by the Department of Public Works and Highways - National Capital Region Office starting 10 p.m. of Aug. 4 until 5 a.m. of Aug. 9.
The MMDA gave the DPWH-NCR its go signal to conduct the road works due to the damage caused by the past typhoon and monsoon rains.
The DPWH reported that partial cost of damages to roads and bridges nationwide due to southwest monsoon and typhoon Egay has reached P7 million. The biggest damage cost reported was in Cordillera Administrative Region at P2.3 million, closely followed by Region 1 at P2.2 million. “We decided that instead of conducting it every weekend, sometimes it’s left unfinished, let’s have one-time, bigtime repairs instead. Fifteen sites will be repaired simultaneously. The road works will run for the whole day. If it will be limited to nighttime, the repairs will take 15 days, there will be heavy traffic,” said MMDA chairman Romando Artes in an interview with Teleradyo. sion conducted by the ranks of the Philippine Army and Philippine Airforce today, Wednesday, August 2. This is contrary to the first statement of Apayao Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer Jeoffrey Borromeo that there is a sighting of the missing plane in the said area.”
According to Apolonio, air and ground search continues with an N50MN Robinson R66 helicopter departing Tuguegarao Airport at 8:40 a.m. Thursday to reach the possible crash site. He added a search and rescue (SAR) team member and an Echo Air representative was on board.
“Two platoons from the 5th IB of the
Philippine Army, Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC), and Philippine National Police (PNP) are meanwhile leading the ground search,” Apolonio said.
Based on CAAP’s Aviation Records Management Division (ARMD), Echo Air International Aviation Academy, Inc. owns two aircraft. The missing RPC8598 has an Airworthiness Certification and is geared with a transponder and an emergency locator transmitter (ELT). CAAP has suspended the operations of the said aviation academy while the search and investigation are still not complete.
