LOOK: Commuters endure 5-hour traffic jam in Quezon

Published December 23, 2014 8:57am

Traffic ground to a halt in parts of roads leading from Metro Manila to the provinces early Tuesday, as the holiday exodus continued to peak.

In Quezon province, traffic was at a standstill for five hours along Quirino Highway in Tagkawayan town, GMA News stringer Peewee Bacuño reported.

Photos tweeted by Bacuño early Tuesday showed buses and vehicles not moving along the highway.

Heavy traffic along Quirino Highway in Tagkawayan, Quezon. 5 hours standstill. | via @PeeweeHero pic.twitter.com/TihCr8Jcdv

— GMA News (@gmanews) December 22, 2014

At the North Luzon Expressway, vehicles bound for Metro Manila were also stuck in traffic early Tuesday.

GMA's I M Ready quoted the NLEX as saying the queue of vehicles at the EDSA-Balintawak area stretched for two kilometers.

Pila ng mga sasakyan papasok ng EDSA-Balintawak (SB) mula NLEx, aabot na sa 2 km, ayon kay Briones ng @nlextraffic. pic.twitter.com/vUgVHWCZdl

— I M Ready (@IMReadyPH) December 22, 2014

The NLEX advised motorists entering Metro Manila via the Balintawak Cloverleaf to take Mindanao Avenue exit instead.

Airport

At the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, radio dzBB's Manny Vargas reported passengers lining up early at the check-in counter of the NAIA Terminal 4 (domestic airport).

Some got ready for a long wait by bringing pillows and spending Monday night there.

Maagang pila ng mga pasahero sa check-in counter ng Domestic Airport; nagdala na ng unan ang ilan. | @VargasMannysen pic.twitter.com/IQtaPuzDGP

— GMA News (@gmanews) December 22, 2014

A separate report on GMA News TV's "News TV Live" said airport authorities advised passengers to be at the airport hours before the check-in time. — Joel Locsin/RSJ, GMA News

Tags: traffic, christmasexodus