MMDA: Number coding lifted August 21 and 25

MANILA, Philippines - The unified vehicular volume reduction program (UVVRP), better known as the “number coding” scheme is suspended on Thursday and on Monday next week, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) announced today.

The MMDA said the UVVRP will be suspended on August 21 (including in Makati City and Las Pinas) as the “Ninoy Aquino Day” is a holiday; and on Monday, August 25, “National Heroes Day.

The UVVRP is lifted across Metro Manila during weekends and during public holidays.

Under the UVVRP, vehicles with license plate numbers ending in 1 and 2 are not allowed in EDSA and on major streets of Metro Manila from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. and again between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Mondays. Vehicles with license numbers ending in 3 and 4 are covered by the UVVRP on Tuesdays; 5 and 6 (Wednesdays); 7 and 8 (Thursdays) and 9 and 0 (Fridays).

Vehicles covered by the UVVRP are given the “window hours” of 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to use EDSA and other major thoroughfares such as the C-5 Road, Roxas Boulevard and the Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard, regardless of the cities covered.

There are no “window hours” in Makati City, and Las Pinas City while the cities of Marikina, Muntinlupa, Taguig and Paranaque do not implement the UVVRP. Pasig City, meanwhile, implements the window hours between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.

In Pasay City, the UVVRP is not implemented along the Ninoy Aquino Avenue, MIA Road, the Domestic Road, Sales Road and portions of Buendia Avenue.