… as it is! By Ed Montalvan

Chaos, It Is!

I go around the city almost every day and I know what is happening in the streets. Somebody asked me what is worse than Worst in describing the city’s traffic. I said Chaos.

The city officials just do not care about putting order in our streets. Apparently they do not know what is happening because they do not bother to go around much. When they do they think that what is happening is more of a separate incident than common.

I challenge anyone in city hall to tell me that I am wrong on this point. In fact, the few that I talk to admit that things have gotten out of control.

I remember that when the Trisicad ordinance was discussed in the city council it was said that this will be limited to Rural Barangays. They will not be allowed in urban Barangays. There was a question on some Barangays that are classified as Rural but actually are Urban. These are Carmen, Macasandig, Nazareth, Consolacion, Puntod, Nacabalan, Lapasan and Camaman-an. The Trisicads were allowed to ferry passengers from these barangays upto their boundaries but not beyond.

Today, they are all over.

There is no rural barangays in the Cogon Market. The nearest is Camaman-an and Nazareth and yet these are all over Cogon Market.

Barangay 29 has no rural barangay near it and yet there are trisicads that travel along A. Luna Street and some even go as far as Capistrano and even enter A. Velez.

Motorellas are not allowed in C,M.Recto and A.Velez and there is not a time that we see a few of them in these areas.

Last week I took a taxi from Nazareth to the Capitol and the driver was in shorts and slippers. I asked him if drivers are no longer required to be in uniform and he said he was never required to wear one.

If one would stand along a PUJ lane and check on all the drivers he would see that 9 out of ten drivers are not in uniform and are in shorts and slippers.

Nobody seems to be following the traffic rules in the city and drivers are free to do what they want.

So is the traffic at the Worst Stage? No, it is not, because it is worse than that.

What is worse than Worst? Chaos…It Is!