Traffic starts to build around UP Diliman on 1st day of UPCAT

Traffic started to build around the University of the Philippines' Diliman campus in Quezon City early Saturday, the first day of the UP College Admission Test.

At of 5:40 a.m., traffic was building around the Quezon Memorial Circle, and before the Philcoa, radio dzBB's Allan Gatus reported.

Similarly, traffic was building along Katipunan Avenue.

Metropolitan Manila Development Authority traffic aides were on hand to help direct traffic.

UPCAT takers at the National Institute of Physics. | via @tinapperez pic.twitter.com/ttMllZS3Cz

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On Tuesday, UP Diliman issued a traffic rerouting scheme as it expected 31,000 students would take the UPCAT this Saturday and Sunday.

UP Vice Chancellor for Community Affairs Nestor Castro had said that a one-way traffic scheme would be carried out around the Academic Oval, at T.M. Kalaw, Quirino up to corner Regidor, Jacinto from University Avenue, to Magsaysay corner. Ylanan, and the Science Complex Oval.

Castro added that no vehicles would be allowed to park around the Academic Oval, though the bike lane would be available to motorists.

Restricted access to all portals would also be suspended for the two days of the UPCAT, and will be open to traffic from 4 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Aside from Diliman, the UP campus in Manila will also serve as a test center for this year's UPCAT. — Joel Locsin/DVM, GMA News