Policy basis and driving-safety rationale
- The resolution finds that continued, unabated registration and operation of right-hand-driven (RHD) motor vehicles has led to an alarming increase of RHDs across nearly all streets and alleys of Metro Manila.
- The resolution finds that a large majority of trucks in Metro Manila are right hand driven.
- The resolution provides that right-hand-driven vehicles are designed for countries where right-hand driving is accepted or prescribed practice.
- The resolution finds that operating vehicles with conflicting design in Metro Manila presents danger to safety and traffic orderliness because Philippine driving is left-hand driving and Metro Manila traffic is congested.
Coverage: vehicles and geography affected
- The ban covers the operation of right-hand-driven motor vehicles.
- The ban applies anywhere in Metro Manila.
- The resolution is directed to right-hand-driven vehicles specifically, and it is framed as a total operational prohibition rather than a partial restriction.
Total prohibition of RHD operation
- MMA Resolution No. 14, s. 1994 totally bans the operation of right-hand-driven motor vehicles within Metro Manila.
- The prohibition is stated to apply anywhere in Metro Manila.
- The resolution treats the ban as comprehensive for operational purposes, not limited to particular routes, streets, times, or classes of RHD vehicles.
Compliance transition period for conversion or replacement
- The resolution requires that the total ban be structured to afford truckers and haulers substantial time to convert or replace right-hand-driven trucks.
- The total ban becomes effective three months after approval of MMA Resolution No. 14, s. 1994.
- The transition period is intended to enable compliance through conversion or replacement of right-hand-driven trucks before the ban takes full effect.
Relationship to prior coordinating council action
- The resolution acknowledges Metropolitan Manila Land Transportation Coordinating Council (MMLTCC) Resolution No. 94-006, which enjoined a ban on right-hand-driven vehicles in Metro Manila.
- MMA Resolution No. 14, s. 1994 imposes a total ban on operation, framed as expanding/strengthening the prior coordinated action by establishing a comprehensive operational prohibition.
- The resolution’s adoption is presented as the operative step that makes the ban effective through the three-month timeline after approval.