WITH around 500 traffic enforcers and other personnel deployed yesterday, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority said the first day of the 55th Asian Development Bank (ADB) Annual Meeting in Mandaluyong City being attended by foreign delegates was peaceful and orderly.
MMDA acting Chairman Carlo Dimayuga III said the agency assisted the PNP in ensuring the safety of the delegates and the smooth flow of traffic in and around the ADB Headquarters in Ortigas Center to ensure the event will be held properly until September 30.
“The collaboration of the PNP, MMDA, and concerned local government units has resulted in peace and order in the area that would boost both economic activity and tourism in the National Capital Region,” said Dimayuga.
“We want to offer the ADB delegations a good and secure stay while hosting the annual meeting,” he added.
At least 350 delegates from member-economies of the ADB and government agencies are attending the gathering.
The MMDA personnel are deployed along the ADB-dedicated route for the seamless movement of delegates from the airport to their billeting hotels, venues, and other engagement areas, and vice versa, with the least inconvenience to the general public.
They are also in charge of traffic management, closed circuit television monitoring, emergency preparedness and response, road safety, road clearing and cleaning operations, and flood mitigation.
The MMDA chief said an ADB Special Lane along Saint Francis and Bank Drive was also set up to give way to the delegates’ convoy on September 28 and 29.
“The EDSA Busway Carousel Lane was also utilized in the primary routes of the delegates’ convoys,” Dimayuga added.
