An inter-agency body headed by the Presidential Management Staff is organizing the conduct this week of a traffic town hall summit of Metro Manila local government chief executives. The planned traffic town hall summit comes at the heels of the 16th full Cabinet meeting held last Wednesday at Malacañang where they tackled how to unify solutions to ease traffic congestion problems in our country.
The MAP proposal was officially presented at the public hearing last March 20 called by the House committee on transportations. At the House hearing, top executives of MAP led by business leader Eddie Yap asked the government to declare a “state of traffic calamity” in Metro Manila and to appoint a “traffic czar.” They cited the estimated P3.
“What the President really wants is a comprehensive, wholistic approach to solving the traffic problem – not the piecemeal approach as has been the case all these years,” Balisacan explained. Balisacan further quoted the President’s directives “to look at intermodal transport systems and see how they operate efficiently as a whole.”
As instructed by DOTr Secretary Jaime Bautista, Mendoza cited the LTO is putting together all the projects and programs of his agency in consonance with the declared policy directions of the President. Aside from traffic engineering schemes, Mendoza added, there are other proposals to quicken the slow daily grind of road travel. This includes rescheduling of office hours of workers in government and the private sectors as well as school hours.
To the credit of the NCAP, Mendoza noted, the project has notably increased driver’s compliance with traffic rules during its short-lived implementation. This was largely due to the very stiff fines and penalties imposed under NCAP. The 15-man High Court found enough legal and constitutional grounds to issue injunction suspending its implementation while still being resolved.
Thanks to the propensity of many people to post anything and everything about themselves on social media, Filipinos can get a glimpse of what our government officials are doing when our taxes send them overseas on... Every day between 4:00 and 4:30 p.m. a distinct air of anticipation fills the ground floor lobby of the Philippine Consulate General in New York.
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