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The MMDA Traffic Navigator was a mobile application launched in 2011 for android and iOS meant to give users quick access to traffic situations surrounding the Metro Manila's major routes. It delivers real-time traffic updates in specific roads and highways by relying on CCTVs to assess the congestion in particular areas.
The program was permanently reinstated as the No Physical Contact Apprehension policy as it is known today on February 16, 2016 through MMDA Resolution No. 16-01, which implements the policy along major thoroughfares of Metro Manila, particularly along EDSA and Circumferential Road 5 with the added use of closed-circuit television (CCTV ...
The Department of Transportation (DOTr; Filipino: Kagawaran ng Transportasyon) is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the maintenance and expansion of viable, efficient, and dependable transportation systems as effective instruments for national recovery and economic progress. It is responsible for the country ...
The impact of the C-5–Kalayaan Interchange's construction was initially positive. Within a week of the interchange's opening, the MMDA claimed that traffic speed and vehicular volume increased, with more than 150,000 cars now passing through the intersection daily, taking an estimated 30,000 vehicles off EDSA. [8]
Coupled with the increase in the number of vehicles and the demand for limited-access highways, the Philippine government requested the government of Japan to conduct a master plan for the development of a high standard highway network in 2009 under the Philippine Medium-Term Public Investment Plan (2005–2010). [3]
A TomTom Traffic Index report in 2024 cited Metro Manila as having the worst traffic in the world for a metropolitan area. [47] Economic losses due to traffic congestion costs about ₱3 billion, as of 2012. [48] By 2030, over ₱6 billion will be lost in the Philippines' economy due to traffic congestion, according to JICA. [49]
The Philippine highway network is a network of national roads owned and maintained by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and organized into three classifications according to their function or purpose: national primary, secondary, and tertiary roads. The national roads connecting major cities are numbered from N1 to N83.
Local names Formed Notes E1: 88.4 54.9 Route 213 (Mabalacat–Magalang Road) in Santa Ines, Mabalacat, Pampanga: Route 1 /Route 160 (Andres Bonifacio Avenue) in Balintawak, Quezon City: North Luzon Expressway: 1968 Asian Highway 26 between Santa Rita, Guiguinto and Balintawak: E1: 132.5 82.3 Route 2 (Manila North Road) in Rosario, La Union