Former Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Bayani Fernando and road users have expressed disappointment over the plan of the new agency chair, with only less than five months in office, to change his signature color from pink to apple green.

“Ako’y nang-hihinayang dahil sa ang kulay pink ay nagkaroon na ng kahulugan sa atin. Nagkaroon na ng karakter ang Metro Manila at nakilala tayo dahil sa buong mundo tayo lang ang may kulay na ganito,” Fernando said.

MMDA Chairman Oscar Inocentes said that the color of the agency’s new projects will be apple green and would not carry color pink, a color identified with Fernando.

Inocentes clarified that existing pink-colored road structures will remain unless they will be changed or the color tarnished due to high cost.

“Yung mga bagong projects lang, ito lang ang papalitan, yung mga existing, hindi natin babaguhin ang kulay kasi very high cost kung gagawin yon,” he explained.

Inocentes said that that color green support’s national government’s campaign against anti-pollution and climate change, as part of the “Metro Green” project.

During the seven-year stint of Fernando, he painted the signs, steel fences, urinals on thoroughfares with pink under the Metro Gwapo project.