MMDA deploying over 2,500 personnel for Holy Week assistance
MANILA, Philippines — The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) announced that it will deploy a total of 2,542 employees / workers and 470 assets to assist residents and travelers to and from Metro Manila this Holy Week.
“Ang concentration natin (referring to personnel deployment) ay airports, pantalan at mga bus stations kung maraming nagco-converge na pasahero at sasakyan,” MMDA Chairperson Don Artes said in a press conference at its headquarters in Pasig City on Friday.
(Our concentration will be at airports, seaports and bus stations where many passengers and vehicles converge.)
The MMDA will implement a no day-off and no absence policy for all personnel of its Traffic Discipline Office (TDO) on April 16, Wednesday; April 17, Thursday; and April 21, Monday in anticipation of an influx of travelers departing from and returning to the metropolis.
The MMDA will have a skeleton staff deployment from April 18, Friday to April 20, Sunday.
Meanwhile, the assets to be deployed include 400 closed circuit television cameras (CCTV), 34 motorcycle units, 14 tow trucks, six ambulances, six mobile patrol units, three rapid response vehicles, two military trucks, two cranes/forklifts, one fire truck, one self-loader and one wrecker crane.
Twelve of the tow trucks will be assigned in pairs to the following locations:
- Park ‘N Fly in Pasay City
- Epifanio De Los Avenue (Edsa) corner Ortigas Avenue
- Edsa corner Timog Avenue
- Edsa corner Quezon Avenue
- C-5 corner Ortigas Avenue
- Commonwealth Avenue base
The six ambulances will be stationed at the following:
- Pasig emergency station
- Edsa – Orense emergency station
- Edsa Cubao northbound
- Quezon Avenue emergency station
- Parañaque Integrated Terminal Exchange (PITX)
- Nagtahan emergency station
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Road reblocking
Artes also announced that road reblockings and repairs will be done in various areas across Metro Manila from 11 p.m. on April 16 to 5 a.m. on April 21.
However, Artes said a more detailed list of the specific affected locations will be released by the MMDA on its official social media accounts.
