Las Piñas roads get additional traffic enforcers

Over a hundred traffic volunteers were fielded to augment some 158 traffic policemen and enforcers to ensure order and smooth flow of traffic this holiday season along the Alabang-Zapote Road and the city’s secondary roads.

The move was in line with the comprehensive implementation of the City Traffic Code, aimed at improving the traffic flow along Alabang-Zapote Road.

Mayor Imelda Aguilar earlier directed Senior Inspector Erma Marquez, Las Piñas Traffic Enforcement Unit (LPC-TEU) chief, to exhaust all effort to ease the perennial traffic congestion along the city’s major thoroughfare, which serves as main artery to neighboring cities.

The mayor also ordered the towing of stalled or illegally parked vehicles, those causing obstruction and those illegally loading and unloading passengers.

Aguilar also reiterated her appeal to all pedestrians to use the designated pedestrian lanes and four overpasses with escalators for their safety and convenience.

"I’m appealing to everyone to cooperate with us in our effort to promote an efficient, comfortable, safe and corrupt-free traffic system in Las Piñas," Aguilar said.

The volunteers from the city’s 20 barangays were deputized to issue traffic violation receipts (TVRs) to erring motorists and apprehend jaywalkers who ignore the pedestrian overpasses and the designated crossing lanes.

At the same time, the opening of "Friendship Routes" (traversing some selected villages and subdivisions) that serve as alternate course to declog the volume of vehicles along the Alabang-Zapote Road, has been extended until midnight for the duration of the holiday season.

With the additional enforcers augmenting the present number of civilian and police traffic officers, motorists can expect at 24-hour traffic assistance.