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Cavite to implement number coding scheme


The provincial government of Cavite has announced that it will soon implement a number coding scheme to address the traffic problem in the province.

The Cavite government has yet to announce when it will start to implement the number coding scheme.

The new policy will be implemented through Provincial Ordinance No. 164.

Under the scheme, all private cars and vans, trucks and motorcycles with license plate or conduction stickers ending in the following numbers will not be allowed to ply several major thoroughfares around the province on their assigned days from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.:

  • 1 and 2 - Monday
  • 3 and 4 - Tuesday
  • 5 and 6 - Wednesday
  • 7 and 8 - Thursday
  • 9 and 0 - Friday

The scheme will be implemented in major thoroughfares including:

  • Aguinaldo Highway (covering the stretch of Bacoor to Dasmariñas-Silang boundary
  • Governor’s Drive (covering the stretch of Carmona to Trece Martires City-Tanza boundary
  • Molino-Salawag-Paliparan Road (from Zapote, Bacoor to Paliparan, Dasmariñas)
  • Molino Boulevard
  • Daang Hari Road (covering the stretch of Aguinaldo Highway, Imus to Molino, Bacoor)

The provincial government said the following vehicles will be exempted from the scheme:

  • All public utility vehicles including public utility jeepneys and buses;
  • Ambulance, firetrucks, police patrol cars, military vehicles with permanent marking indicating them as such, as well as privately-owned ambulance and vehicles with markings;
  • Trucks covered by truck bans;
  • Vehicles carrying person/s needing immediate medical attention;
  • Government vehicles with government plates;
  • Vehicles delivering perishable goods in commercial quantity, including fresh vegetables, fruits and flowers, raw meat and fresh seafood, ice products, baked products with shelf life of 24 hours, medicine or vaccine expiring within 24 hours, and cooked food or catering;
  • Vehicles used by medical practitioner in an emergency;
  • Duly franchised school buses and company shuttle service vehicles; and
  • Vehicles on mission to carry relief goods to identified calamity of highly-depressed areas

Violators will slapped with a fine of P300. —ALG, GMA News

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