MMC: Absolute E-Trike, E-Bike ban on 21 national roads, implementation begins April 2024
It’s final. The Metro Manila Council (MMC) has placed an e-trike and e-bike ban along a total of 20 national roads in cities within the MMDA’s jurisdiction. Following the proliferation – and virality – showing videos of e-bikes and e-trikes seemingly disregarding laws and safety, both the Council and the MMDA made haste to put rules in place for these vehicles’ usage. Now they have released the guidelines.
E-Trike, E-Bike ban will start in April 2024
Photo: Metro Manila Development Authority
As it turns out, reports were accurate the the MMC will, indeed, release the guidelines for an e-trike and e-bike ban 12 sooner rather than later. After speculations last week, the Council through the MMDA approved a resolution yesterday, February 28, 2024, that prohibits “the use of major thoroughfares for certain types of transportation and other types of conveyances.”
As stated in MMDA Regulation No. 24-022 series of 2024, traversing of e-vehicles, such as e-bikes and e-trikes, as well as tricycles, pedicabs, pushcarts, and kuligligs on national roads, circumferential, and radial roads in Metro Manila will be prohibited.
Photo: Department of Transportation
The included roads are “scattered” among cities over which the MMDA has jurisdiction, and these are the following that will adhere to the e-trike and e-trike ban EDIT: MMDA has added Espana Blvd. to the list in the morning of 29 February 2024, bringing the total of covered roads to 21:
- C1: Recto Avenue
- C2: Pres. Quirino Avenue
- C3: Araneta Avenue
- C4: EDSA
- C5: Katipunan/CP Garcia
- C6: Southeast Metro Manila Expressway
- R1: Roxas Boulevard
- R2: Taft Avenue
- R3: Osmeña Highway (formerly South Super Highway)
- R4: Shaw Boulevard
- R5: Ortigas Avenue
- R6: Magsaysay Blvd./Aurora Blvd.
- R7: Quezon Ave./Commonwealth Ave.
- R8: A. Bonifacio Ave.
- R9: Rizal Ave.
- R10: Del Pan/Marcos Highway/McArthur Highway
- Elliptical Road
- Mindanao Avenue
- Marcos Highway
- Boni Ave. (Mandaluyong)
- Espana Blvd.
On the impending reactions and complaints following the baring of the e-trike and e-bike ban, MMDA Acting Chairman Atty. Don Artes emphasized, “Due to the proliferation of e-vehicles, the MMC deemed it imperative to regulate and penalize those who will traverse the national roads using such means of transportation. We are not totally banning the use of e-bikes and e-trikes; we just want to regulate it since it has been a common cause of traffic and road crash incidents.”
Photo: Metro Manila Development Authority
To supplement the e-trike and e-bike ban on national roads, each Metro Manila local government unit will be coming up with ordinances for the secondary and other inner roads under its jurisdiction. A driver’s license will now be required for those who will drive electric-powered motor vehicles, such as e-bikes, e-trikes, and tricycles, and those who cannot present their driver’s license upon apprehension shall be subject to impoundment of their respective vehicles.
The fine for those who violate the E-Trike and E-Bike ban will be PHP 2,500USD 42INR 3,613EUR 41CNY 310.
The regulation is set to be implemented in April following an information and awareness campaign.
