President Marcos on Sunday, June 1, ordered the temporary suspension of the EDSA rehabilitation project.
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00:00President Marcos on Sunday, June 1, ordered a temporary suspension of the EDSA rehabilitation project.
00:07It was supposed to begin on June 13 and would have used an odd-even system to limit vehicle access to the metro's main road.
00:14Marcos said the government would create a better plan to finish the repairs in six months to a year, instead of three years.
00:21He acknowledged that while EDSA does need rehabilitation, the current plan would cause too much inconvenience and heavy traffic.
00:27Marcos said there are now new technologies that were not considered in the original EDSA rehabilitation plan,
00:33so he instructed Transportation Secretary Vince Dizon and Public Works Secretary Mani Bonoan to pause the project for now.
00:41The president, however, did not give a specific date of when the rehabilitation would resume.
00:46Besides that, he is giving the review process a month.
00:49With the entire project on hold, the Metro Manila Development Authority said the odd-even scheme has been cancelled too.
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