MMDA to activate ‘Oplan Undas 2024’ to ensure orderly All Saint’s Day observance

MANILA: In preparation for the upcoming All Saints and All Souls’ Day, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) bared its preparations to ensure orderly observance.

Under "Oplan Undas 2024", the agency shall deploy 1,257 personnel from Traffic Discipline Office, Special Operations Group-Strike Force, Metro Parkways Clearing Group, and Road Emergency Group who will focus on bus terminals, cemeteries, and major road thoroughfares.

“We will activate our Oplan Undas 2024 from October 27 to November 4 to ensure a safe observance of remembering our departed loved ones. We will also implement ‘No Day Off, No Absent Policy’ for our traffic personnel,” MMDA Chairman Atty. Romando Artes said.

Shifting will also be extended until midnight a day before and after the Undas to increase visibility and to intensify traffic management.

The MMDA will send out 12 tow trucks and six ambulances to provide public assistance and immediately respond to any emergencies as well as install help desks and command posts inside bus terminals.

Further, cleanup operations in the vicinity of cemeteries shall be implemented on October 26 until November 4.

Traffic situations in the National Capital Region will be monitored round the clock throughout the said period and 30 cameras will also be placed in five major cemeteries in the region namely the Manila North Cemetery, Manila South Cemetery, Bagbag Public Cemetery in Quezon City, Loyola Memorial Park in Marikina, and San Juan Public Cemetery.

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