The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) announced that the plan is under way to construct concrete dividers along the entire stretch of the Epifanio delos Santos Avenue to keep public utility buses (PUBs) within the yellow lanes.

MMDA’s Traffic Engineering Center said the yellow lane “separators” are concrete strips that are high enough to prevent errant PUBs from going out of the yellow lanes, where they are supposed to stay.

These “separators” would also help slow down traffic in the inner lanes that are reserved for private vehicles and other public utility vehicles.

“We have noticed that despite our strict prohibition, bus drivers still get out of the yellow lanes whenever they have the chance to do so. So we have put up these separators which will serve as the yellow lane fence,” MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando said.

Yellow lanes are the outermost lanes in EDSA that the agency has designated exclusively for provincial and city buses.

Fernando said these “separators” are now being experimented on the portion of EDSA from Guadalupe to Estrella. He said since the construction of the “separators” at the Guadalupe to Estrella portion of Edsa, they have noticed a marked improvement in the traffic at the area.

The MMDA chief said besides the buses, the “separators” would also keep away private vehicles from the yellow lanes. “With these separators, private vehicles can now travel along EDSA without being slowed down by buses that mix with them in the inner lanes,” he said.

Fernando said the yellow lane separators would be properly marked with reflectorized cones and collapsible bollards to prevent accidents.