MMDA helping to sell more motor vehicles

AT a time when our cities are getting warmer and more polluted, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is making things worse with policies that are pro-motorization, anti-environment, anti-poor and anti-mobility. Their latest regulation is also likely unlawful as it contravenes Republic Act (RA) 11697, or the “Electric Vehicle Industry Development Act (Evida),” which requires public and private sectors to support electric vehicle adoption.

When heat records are being shattered, we need to move away from encouraging the use of fossil-fuel motor vehicles that make our streets much warmer (from engine heat and hot exhaust), especially when thousands of cars are stuck in traffic daily. There is also the noise and air pollution associated with increasing motorization.