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00:10 because in 2023, the average travel time will be increased by one minute in Metro Manila.
00:16 And in the whole year, those who travel in Metro Manila due to traffic will spend more than 100 hours,
00:24 equivalent to almost 5 days according to a traffic indexing website.
00:29 MMDA has a special announcement for Valentine's Day.
00:33 Special Report is brought to you by Oscar Oida.
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00:38 Roses are red, violets are blue.
00:43 But if your car is just parked, but you have a ticket, you will reach it in a flash.
00:50 That's what made MMDA's Valentine's Day for those who continue to park in various places in Quilino Highway in Manila.
00:58 Valentine's Ticket Sir.
01:00 It's okay Sir, I was just lucky.
01:02 We will have tickets for unattended vehicles. We will put tickets and roses.
01:09 Valentine's? We don't have a date so we will just give flowers.
01:15 The shops that are already occupied by the people of Manila are also gone.
01:21 We also know that. So we are really sorry because we are just looking for a way to survive.
01:26 According to MMDA, it is hoped that the public will understand that all of this is done to alleviate the increasing problem of traffic.
01:37 A problem that is being faced every day by someone like Edwin Sabroso, an employee of an IT company in Taguig.
01:45 In the midst of traffic, in the gasoline, it is a complete defeat.
01:50 My 500 pesos in a day, it will also reach more or less 2 days.
01:55 Now my 500 pesos will be less than the return.
01:58 I need to top up about 200 pesos.
02:01 But what he is most worried about is the 4 hours that he is missing every day whenever he goes home and enters the house.
02:10 He is always looking for time for his family.
02:14 You can't have breakfast all together because you have to go early.
02:17 In the afternoon, you are in a hurry because you know, BGC is traffic.
02:21 So before you go out of BGC, it will take you 1 hour to go to EDSA.
02:25 So you don't have time. When you come home, you don't have anything to spend with them.
02:30 In the 2023 traffic report of TOMTOM, a Dutch navigation and digital mapping group, Metro Manila is number 1 in metro areas around the world when it comes to traffic.
02:41 In 2023, the average travel time was 25 minutes and 30 seconds to travel 10 kilometers in Metro Manila.
02:50 TOMTOM said that it is slower by 50 seconds or almost 1 minute if compared to 2022.
02:57 According to their study, the longest road in the past year is here in Quezon Avenue.
03:05 In that average travel time, the journey will take 59 minutes in the entire length of EDSA from Rojas Boulevard in Pasay to Monumento in Caloocan.
03:16 It is something that should be done within 23 minutes if there is no traffic based on the 60 km/h speed limit of EDSA.
03:26 According to TOMTOM, the most severe traffic happened on December 15, the time of the Christmas rush, when it took more than 31 minutes to travel 10 kilometers.
03:40 In Metro Manila, the average travel time is 240 hours or 10 days in a year.
03:50 More than 100 hours or more than 4 days were wasted because of the traffic.
03:57 We are still trying to get a new permit for this MMDA, but the MMDA Acting Chairman, Romando Artes, was the first to question the report.
04:07 He wanted to know what was the basis of the aforementioned.
04:12 They are still studying and doing their best to solve the long-standing problem of traffic.
04:19 Based on the latest data of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, 4.9 billion pesos are wasted every day due to the traffic in Metro Manila this 2020.
04:30 According to them, the country will lose 9.4 billion pesos every day by 2027 if the traffic is not solved.
04:40 President Bongbong Marcos also condemned the problem of the GMA Integrated News.
04:46 He sees a good and effective public transport system as the solution to the problem of traffic.
04:52 Like the construction of the North-South Commuter Railway System that connects Bulacan to Cavite and the addition of ferry stations in Pasig River.
05:03 For GMA Integrated News, Oscar Oida, for 24 Hours.
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