A way to decongest Metro Manila traffic
The current administration's action to immediately implement corrective measures is exactly the right way to force the stakeholders to sit down in the negotiation table and resolve their concerns. In order to effect required changes that need immediate solutions, immediate action is necessary. The comment of PISTON to have prior "intensive studies and public consultations" has been an old toll used by transport operators to delay important changes as intensive studies and debates are just delaying tactics of operators to prolong implementation. The government is trying to find measures to correct the traffic problem and they have identified that traffic congestion has been greatly caused by too much vehicles plying the EDSA road, more than what the roads can accomodate. Operators are always expected to have the easy way out and to bargain to keep their business healthy at the expense of the riding public. For years, the transport group had remained ...