Full list: 19 Roads where e-trikes, e-bikes will be banned beginning April 2024

Full list: 19 Roads where e-trikes, e-bikes will be banned beginning April 2024

We already know that several government agencies are pushing to roll out a set of unified regulations that will govern the use of small electric-powered vehicles like e-bikes and e-trikes. The Metro Manila Council (MMC), through the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), has now released a list of major thoroughfares where the use of such modes of transport will be banned.

Effective April 2024, MMDA Regulation No. 24-022 will take effect. It covers not just e-bikes and e-trikes, but also tricycles, pedicabs, pushcarts, and kuliglig, which shall be banned on these 19 roads starting next month:

Roads that will ban e-bikes, e-trikes, tricycles, pedicabs, pushcarts, and kuliglig effective April 2024:

1. C1: Recto Avenue
2. C2: Pres. Quirino Avenue
3. C3: Araneta Avenue
4. C4: EDSA
5. C5: Katipunan Avenue/C.P. Garcia Avenue
6. C6: Southeast Metro Manila Expressway
7. R1: Roxas Boulevard
8. R2: Taft Avenue
9. R3: SLEX
10. R4: Shaw Boulevard
11. R5: Ortigas Avenue
12. R6: Magsaysay Boulevard/Aurora Boulevard
13. R7: Quezon Avenue/Commonwealth Avenue
14. R8: A. Bonifacio Avenue
15. R9: Rizal Avenue
16. R10: Del Pan/Marcos Highway/MacArthur Highway
17. Elliptical Road
18. Mindanao Avenue
19. Marcos Highway

Images of motorcyclists riding inside the bike lane on EDSA

PHOTO BY MMDA on Facebook

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In addition, users of electric-powered vehicles shall be required to have a driver’s license, and those who cannot present one when apprehended shall have their vehicles impounded. The penalty for using the banned vehicles on the above-mentioned roads, whether or not they have a driver’s license, is P2,500. The MMDA shall carry out a widespread information and awareness campaign before implementing the new measure.

“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,” said Atty. Romando Artes, acting chairman of the MMDA.

“We are not totally banning the use of e-vehicles; we just want to regulate it since it has been a common cause of traffic and road crash incidents,” he went on, adding that 554 road crash incidents in 2023 involved these electric-powered conveyances.

“We won’t wait for these figures to blow up before we regulate it considering the increasing number of users of these kinds of vehicles.”