MMDA explains no automatic exemption for ambulances, other emergency cars under NCAP

Since last year, several ambulances have been caught using the EDSA Busway with no patients on board and even with no emergency situations to respond to.

- By AARON RECUENCO

In June last year, two ambulances used the EDSA Busway to catch an event in a mall in Pasay City.

The most recent happened last February when another ambulance with blinkers on entered the bus lane without a patient on board.

This is one of the reasons, according to the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), why it could not program in the computer system of the No-Contact Apprehension Policy (NCAP) an automatic exemption of all vehicles with sirens and blinkers.