The Battle to Save Lives and Allow Bikes on Philippine Tollways continues

This might be of interests for some of us, if you plan to visit Luzon ore some of the big Islands.

The fight to allow motorcycles onto tollways of the Philippines continues as the already declared unconstitutional DO123 banning bikes under 400cc has been revived under a new name by the DOTC. Smaller bikes that would be far safer on the tollways are still forced to use chaotic, lawless roads that are estimated to be as much as 200 times more dangerous than the tollways.

Two years ago when the President of the Philippines was asked for help to end the ban on bikes under 400cc and introduce international standards like maybe a 100cc or 120cc lower limit the President instructed the Secretary of the DOTC to make it his highest priority to bring the Philippines into line with international standards. For two years nothing happened then recently the DOTC re-declared the tollways to be Limited Access Highways and the tollways once again introduced a total ban on motorcycles. More recently one of the staff of the DOTC and his motorcycle club requested the DOTC to allow his club and others entry to the tollways. The result was the DOTC re-introduced the sub400cc ban putting the situation right back to point where it was two years ago when the President of the Philippines instructed him to bring the Philippines into line with international standards. The full but maybe not entirely up to date history of the fight to save lives by ending the ban with all supporting legal documents etc is here. For a brief point by point history go here.