Six thousand steel bollards will be installed at narrow areas along EDSA by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), replacing the concrete barriers placed along the said areas to make the road more spacious for vehicles.
Assistant Secretary Celine Pialago, MMDA spokesperson, said that they have already installed steel bollards at the Shaw tunnel in Mandaluyong City.
Steel bollards are short metal posts set at intervals to delimit an area or exclude vehicles.
"We are doing this to make the road more spacious at narrow tunnels and splitting roads," she said.
The spokesperson maintained this action of the agency has nothing to do with barrier-related vehicle accidents along EDSA, stressing that the concrete barriers along the new bus lane are safe and not the cause of recent accidents.
"The concrete barriers we installed are very safe. The causes of accidents are hard-headed bus drivers who do not follow the speed limit," Pialago stressed.
"Again, we will install steel bollards not because of the concrete-barrier accidents. We will replace the concrete barriers at narrow areas such as tunnels and splitting roads," she added.
According to her, the concrete barriers they removed will be installed at some parts of the new bus lane that has no concrete barriers yet.
To prevent accidents along EDSA, Pialago told the public to follow the speed limit: 60 kilometers per hour for private vehicles and 50 kilometers per hour for buses.
"Also, stay on your lane. Do not keep on shifting lanes because this is the usual cause of accidents along EDSA," Pialago said.