ORTIGAS, Mandaluyong City — Despite viral warnings on violating regulations in the use of the EDSA Busway, the drivers of a luxury car and a rescue vehicle of a local government unit were the latest to be apprehended for entering the exclusive bus carousel lane.

Authorities from the Department of Transportation’s Special Action and Intelligence Committee for Transportation (DoTr-SAICT) flagged down a black Maserati sedan that entered the busway near the northbound portion of the Ortigas Flyover northbound during the early morning rush hour last February 21.

Aside from the illegal use of the exclusive busway, SAICT enforcers also held the luxury car's driver, whose identity was not revealed, for the absence of a front license plate, which is mandated by law.

At the same time the arrest was made, a rescue vehicle from an unidentified local government unit (LGU), which sported pink and green paint on its body, was also apprehended for entering the busway. The driver did not show an official receipt or certificate of registration for the rescue multicab.

SAICT spokesperson Jonathan Gesmundo reminded motorists that “the EDSA busway is reserved for authorized public utility buses to ensure efficient mass transit (and) unauthorized entry disrupts the system and endangers commuters.”

"Only city buses, emergency vehicles like ambulances and fire trucks, and convoys of the President, Vice President, Senate President, Speaker and Chief Justice are authorized to use the busway," Gesmundo stressed.