Privatization of EDSA busway

If there’s one positive outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s to reduce the horrible traffic along the nearly 24-km EDSA, Metro Manila’s main thoroughfare, straddling at least five cities, at least for the past two years.

To rationalize traffic along the vital artery, the Metro Manila Development Authority experimented with the EDSA Carousel that keeps buses along the innermost lanes in both directions.Now, the EDSA Carousel, or the EDSA busway, is considered a welcome development as it has streamlined commuting by bus along EDSA.

Some 30 organizations comprising different business groups, trade unions, and private sector associations are backing the privatization of the EDSA Busway. “To expeditiously carry this work-in-progress project forward to its completion in accordance with global standards, as laudably committed by Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista, we strongly urge and fully support its privatization, conformably with PPP process and under concession terms beneficial to all concerned,” read a joint endorsement letter made public by the Management Association of the Philippines recently.

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