Updated MMDA Number Coding Rules and Guidelines 2011

Already several years in use, the Manila Number Coding system is designed to ease traffic in the Metropolis. The idea behind the MMDA Number Coding is to reduce the number of vehicles in Metro Manila by 20% from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM. However, since its implementation, several changes have occurred and many drivers, this author included, are confused as to what rules are currently in place in the MMDA Number Coding scheme, also known as the MMDA Unified Vehicular Volume Reduction Program (UVVRP).

Posted below are the latest updated rules of the Number Coding system, as revised in December 2010:

• The MMDA Number Coding Scheme implements the following schedule in banning vehicles whose plate numbers end in the following digits:

1 and 2: Mondays
3 and 4: Tuesdays
5 and 6: Wednesdays
7 and 8: Thursdays
9 and 0: Fridays

• The Number Coding Scheme starts at 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM with window hours starting from 10:00 am – 3:00 in the afternoon. A ‘window period’ from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM allows vehicles banned for that day. However, not all areas in Metro Manila have ‘window periods’. The cities of Makati and Las Piñas do NOT implement window hours. Thus, Number Coding Scheme is strictly implemented from 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM in these two cities. Meanwhile, Pasig has a window period from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
• The cities of Parañaque, Marikina, and Muntinlupa do not implement the Number Coding Scheme.
• Taguig does not implement the Number Coding Scheme within its internal roads. But the scheme is enforced on the National Roads within its boundaries, i.e. C5, East Service Road and Manuel L. Quezon.
• EDSA, C-5 Road, Diosdado Macapagal Avenue, and Roxas Boulevard are included in the implementation of Window Hours. This includes portions of EDSA inside Makati City.
• Pasay DOES NOT implement the Number Coding Scheme: Ninoy Aquino Ave., MIA Road, Domestic Road, Airport Road, Sales Road, and portions of Buendia.
• All Public Utility Buses (City and Provincial) are now covered under the Number Coding Scheme, with no ‘Window Hours’. Motorcycles, on the other hand are exempted from the scheme.

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