Senator Raffy Tulfo on Wednesday urged the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to pull out its motorcycle escorts and transfer these to traffic duties along EDSA after another incident where an unauthorized vehicle used the thoroughfare’s busway. “Nanawagan ako ngayon sa MMDA chairman. Ngayon pa lamang, -ipull out mo na (ang motorcycle escorts) unless you have authority from the Office of the President then wala tayong magawa.
Pag-trabahuhin mo dyan sa EDSA, at wala na dapat escort,” Tulfo, who is the chair of the Senate Committee on Public Services, said in a press briefing. “Dapat yan ay ginagamit sa pag-papatrolya sa traffic, paghahabol sa traffic violators, hindi sa pag escort ng VIP,” he added. (I called on the MMDA chairman today to pull out the agency’s motorcycle escorts.
Unless you have authority from the Office of the President, then we can't do anything about it. Order them to work along EDSA, and there should no longer be escorts. The motorcycle units should be used to patrol traffic, apprehend traffic violatorsand not to escort VIPs.
) The senator’s remarks came after a luxury SUV was caught using the EDSA busway near the MRT Guadalupe station's northbound lane on Sunday. Video from the Special Action and Intelligence Committee for Transportation (SAICT), the SUV escaped apprehension and even "attempted to run over" traffic enforcer Sarah Barnachea of the Department of Transportation’s Special Action and Intelligence Committee for Tran.