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
As it turns out, reports were accurate the the MMC will, indeed, release the guidelines for an e-trike and e-bike ban 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.
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.”
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 2,500.
The regulation is set to be implemented in April following an information and awareness campaign.
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