BAN BUSES * Philippines - City ban on provincial buses
City buses are not allowed to ply provincial routes; provincial buses should be treated the same way
Manila,Philippines -The Philippine Daily Inquirer, by Neal Cruz -21 March 2010: -- Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim, he has banned the entry of provincial buses in Manila because of the traffic and pollution that they bring with them. Now if only all the Metro Manila mayors will follow his example, maybe sanity and health will return to the streets of the metropolis... The Department of Public Works and Highways spent billions of pesos to build these flyovers to make traffic above and below them move more smoothly. So what did the MMDA do?... It blocked through-traffic under the flyovers, made vehicles go around U-turns, then turned the spaces under the flyovers into loading/unloading bays of provincial buses, parking lots, junkyards for MMDA’s steel junk, and air-conditioned offices for MMDA personnel. Instead of the flyovers easing traffic, therefore, they contributed to more traffic congestion aside from creating ugly sights. All those billions of pesos of taxpayers’ money were wasted... The reason the MMDA was set up was to give the cities and municipalities of the megalopolis uniform policies. This ban on provincial buses that Mayor Lim has started can be a beginning with the MMDA as the facilitator. After all, why should provincial buses be allowed to choke the already clogged city streets? City buses are not allowed to ply provincial routes; provincial buses should be treated the same way... (Image from images3.wikia.nocookie: Overloaded Philippines' provincial bus)Labels: buses ban
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