MANILA, Philippines – Bonifacio Global City (BGC) will continue to enjoy the “window hours” – when the car-coding scheme is lifted each day – until further notice.

Confusion arose over which traffic scheme would be followed by motorists within BGC Tuesday, August 6, a day after the Court of Appeals (CA) ruled that the area was among the barangays that belong to Makati and not Taguig.

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority implements across the National Capital Region a number coding scheme based on the last digit of a vehicle’s license plate, banning a vehicle from the streets once a day during weekdays.

The scheme is in place from 7 am to 7 pm, but lifted from 10 am to 3pm.

Makati, however, doesn’t observe these window hours. The same is true in Las Piñas City.

Makati traffic chief administrator SPO1 Mardy Solis Domingo said the traffic scheme of the MMDA at the BGC still stands until further notice.

“[We will stick to the] status quo [kasi] wala pang advice sa amin,” he told Rappler in a phone call. (We will stick to the status quo because we have not been advised [to change it].)

The city’s departments are still waiting for directions from Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay Jr, he added.

The CA had ordered Taguig “to immediately cease and desist from exercising jurisdiction within the disputed area and return the same to Makati.”

Through its official Twitter account, the city government of Makati said that window hours would soon be a thing of the past at BGC, but added that there “is still no exact date of effectivity of number coding in BGC.” 

@iamcorkee Yes sir, but there is still no exact date of effectivity of number coding in BGC. #MakatiTraffic

— MakatiTraffic (@MakatiTraffic) August 6, 2013

– Rappler.com