The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will deploy 500 personnel to manage traffic and assist participants in the 55th Asian Development Bank (ADB) annual meeting on Sept. 26-30, 2022.
MMDA acting chairman Carlo Dimayuga III tapped the agency’s Task Force Traffic Management to provide the needed traffic enforcers and equipment along the ADB-dedicated route for the seamless movement of delegates from the airport to the billeting hotels, venues, and other engagement areas, and vice versa, “at the least inconvenience to the general public.”
Some 300 delegates from member-nations of the ADB are expected to attend the event at the ADB headquarters at the Ortigas Center, Mandaluyong City.
“No roads will be closed for the five-day meeting, but motorists may expect traffic disruptions at the Ortigas area and other affected routes,” Dimayuga said.
He said occasional traffic disruptions might be experienced along Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue from Magallanes to Ortigas, Julia Vargas, ADB Avenue, San Miguel Avenue, Guadix Drive, Bank Drive, and Saint Francis Street whenever delegates’ convoys from the airport to Ortigas area passes by.
ADB special lane along Saint Francis and Bank Drive will be set up to give way to the convoys on September 28 and 29.
On EDSA, the convoys may use the inner lane or the Busway Carousel from Guadalupe to the Ortigas area.
MMDA traffic enforcers will be deployed along the route of the convoys escorting the delegates. MMDA Road Emergency Group, in coordination with the Office of the Civil Defense, the Department of Health, and the Bureau of Fire Protection, will also be on standby to provide emergency assistance.
Traffic personnel from the Philippine National Police, Mandaluyong and Pasig local government units, and the security forces of the Ortigas Center will also assist in traffic management in the ADB area.