STARTING May 15, cargo trucks, buses and tricycles plying the Domestic Road and Andrews Avenue leading to the Manila Domestic Airport and the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) are advised to take alternate routes on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (Edsa), Roxas Boulevard or the Diosdado Macapagal Avenue, as authorities are in the process of easing traffic in these highly congested areas around the premier airport.

The traffic scheme complements the Kalyeng Maayos Joint Project of the Manila International Airport Authority (Miaa), the Pasay City government and the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA).

“We expect to ease traffic within the airport complex as a result of this traffic rerouting, and [we] thank all those agencies who made this possible,” said Miaa General Manager Alfonso Cusi.

The 24-hour ban applies to commercial vehicles entering Andrews Avenue and the Domestic Road.

“Truck drivers of cargo companies with offices located along Domestic Road and Andrews Avenue are required to show proof that their offices are located along these roads to be allowed access,” Cusi added.

Provincial buses coming from Edsa with terminals along Tramo Road must take a U-turn at the slot fronting the KIA Motors building, while tricycles plying the Nichols route must take the inner streets of the Maricaban area.

A no-left-turn policy will be implemented for vehicles coming from Domestic Road. Instead, they must go around the rotunda at Sales Avenue at the end of Andrews Avenue enroute to Tramo, or take Sales Avenue heading toward Fort Bonifacio or Pasong Tamo Extension.

All vehicles from Tramo Road must turn right at Andrews Avenue.

The Miaa has adopted the “No number coding policy,” where all vehicles are free to take major thoroughfares within the Miaa jurisdiction. It begins from Tramo Bridge to Andrews Avenue, Domestic Road, the Naia Avenue all the way to Passcor Drive beside the Pagcor Casino on Imelda Avenue.

 The personnel of those vehicles whose routes regularly take them into the Miaa are required to wear uniforms and identification cards issued by the airport authority, aside from the one-color scheme for PUVs plying the Naia routes.

In the planning stage is the installation of closed-circuit television cameras on all major airport thoroughfares as part of a five-year security-development program of the Miaa, Cusi said.

Rerouting around Naia begins May 15

STARTING May 15, cargo trucks, buses and tricycles plying the Domestic Road and Andrews Avenue leading to the Manila Domestic Airport and the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) are advised to take alternate routes on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (Edsa), Roxas Boulevard or the Diosdado Macapagal Avenue, as authorities are in the process of easing traffic in these highly congested areas around the premier airport.

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