On June 16, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority is trying out a new odd-even scheme for EDSA to help manage traffic during the highway’s rehabilitation. The agency will conduct a one-month dry run, after which the MMDA will proceed as necessary. If it works, we suppose it will be retained as is; if it doesn’t, it could be tweaked to make it more efficient.

We previously shared with you a matrix to show you how the odd-even scheme would be implemented. This was based entirely on how we understood it.

However, the agency panicked when it realized how stupid the idea was clarified the following day that the new odd-even scheme “will replace the regular coding during the rebuilding; it will not be implemented simultaneously.”

Okay. So, we asked our reader who had done the first matrix to make two separate matrices: one for the new odd-even scheme, and one for the existing number-coding. To be clear—at least according to how we understand it—the new odd-even scheme will only be used on EDSA and not anywhere else. Meanwhile, the existing number-coding will only be used everywhere except EDSA.

Hence, combining the two matrices, we come up with a new matrix. See if you can understand it.

Don’t worry. We’re just as confused. Good thing we have a reader who has the patience and the meticulousness that we need to digest all of this.

In summary, we will apply two different schemes: one for EDSA, and one for everywhere else.

Or maybe MMDA bosses will see the wisdom in simplicity and common sense.

For now, let’s just obey and cooperate. In the end, all of this will be for our own good. We hope.