It is very noticeable that during the semestral and summer break, traffic in the metropolis is light. Students that seem to crowd the streets and malls are surprisingly absent - when there is an academic furlough this leads to a city traffic that is inevitably light and easier.
Whenever there is traffic or gridlock – time, manpower and opportunities are lost that are certain never to present themselves again. Like a cancer that is brought about by urbanization, traffic seems to be an inherent problem that is beyond a simplistic solution.
The government, in response the horrendous daily traffic brings, adopted numerous schemes so as to lessen, avoid and if possible, eradicate the curse of traffic. From the multi-billion projects of MRT to LRT, to the construction of “infrastructures” that was designed originally to decongest potential traffic gridlocks.
The government even went to the extent of establishing a government arm specifically tasked with controlling metro traffic. The Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA), with its annual expenditures of another billion of pesos acts as a main traffic enforcer for the Metropolis.
From a color-coding scheme to an odd-even program to a unified vehicular reduction program, the social experimentation was meant to gather empirical data so as to ease metro traffic and have a semblance of reason in the management of number of vehicles using the road of the metropolis.
The weakness of an odd-even scheme is that even if there is a vehicular reduction, people (particularly students) would still need to commute from their place of residence to their schools. Yes, there is a reduction of vehicles on the road, but there are still students on the road using another mode of transportation and still causes another form of traffic and gridlock.
Crudely, what I have in mind is that instead of focusing on reducing vehicles on the road of metropolis, maybe a more efficient mode of reducing students on the road would be more effective in reducing traffic and gridlock.
Now how do we go about this?
We reduce the number of students on the road by having a school time that does not coincide with the usual time frame of the other sector of society. When employees are usually within the time frame of 8 AM to 5 PM/9 AM to 6 PM, maybe students could be on a 6 AM to 2 PM time frame where there are a lesser number of people on the road since majority of them are still at work.
This suggested arrangement reduces the number of people on the road where instead of adopting a vehicular reduction program, the government adopts a people reduction program. Lesser people on the road means lesser traffic…
This particular set-up is applicable only in Metro Manila since this is where traffic is very heavy. In the province, the status quo of schedule is sufficient to meet the current dictates and imperatives.
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heavy traffic is on of the common situation in the philippines. most especially in manila. our goverment. offers different subtitute way of transportation. there are jeepneys. bus. .taxi. .l.r.t. m.r.t. those public utilities vehicles are really sufficients to all filipino. but the only problem to this issue "traffic" is not totally the # of people.but also the #of vehicles at the road.
if we will see. there are alot vehicle. but not of them are occupied by passenger. most of the time there are more #of jeepeneys who are empty. but still they are on the road.
"# PEOPLE ARE NOOT BASE ON THE HIGH SITUATION OF TRAFFIC"
"IT'S NOT EASY TO LESSEN THE # OF PEOPLE. ONE OF THE SIMPLIEST ACTION FOR THIS IS. . OWN WAY OF PEOPLE HOW THEY CAN DISCIPLINE THERE OWNSELF. AVOID GOING TO PLACES THAT THEY DOES'NT REALLYNEED
SOCIO C-209
LM21B1
1:30-2:30pm MWF
heavy traffic is the main problem usually in manila and Quezon City. Because the passenger of many vehicles is usually a students. For me the traffic is my first problem because ill always late to my first subject.
Socio C-209
LM21FB1
1:30 - 2:30 MWF
Trafic are trafics, they can not be easily undone, as long as there are irresponsible people who do not mind to think. i will exist for ever.
if the cause of trafic is population, well its better to make a law that a family should only have two to three children and if they go beyond the limit they will pay fee for exceeding the limit. well if other asking what is the relevance of this suggestion, well think, if there is less population, there will be less trafic. because people in the streets are lessen.
if the cause of trafic is vehicle, well its better to reduce jeeps and buses, coz it seems that there are lots of jeeps and buses that roaming around cities, and yet they dont have pasenger. maybe giving a number of jeep and busses will do.
and if the cause of trafic is the students and the worker, well,its kind a hard to find a solution for that. maybe giving a time for the student/worker to go to school/office will do. something like student should go to school by 6:30 to 7:30 and after that 7:30 and on ward the office worker will go to their offices. well, if the student can't go that time, well they will be on trafic.
well this maybe a solution or maybe just a comment.
by: Seemoon Luchengho
This article can help the government to minimize the students in the road and to avoid traffic. It is a good suggestion to make a time frame between the employees/employers and the students, it is a good idea. Overall this article must be posted in a popular website so that more people can read it.
Ganitano,Dhenjelyn T.
SOCIO 003/MWF-2:30-5:30
COXXFB1
Reduction of people on the road instead of reduction of vehicles is a very wise suggestion. We can't really eliminate the crowded students waiting for vehicles by just simply reducing their mode of transportation. And also, if vehicles are to be reduced, we students are consuming much of our time by just waiting for jeep, or any mode of transportation. But if we will implement the people reduction program, it would be a great help for us because there is a division of passengers within a particular time.
Falceso, Joyce Marie
SOCIO 003/MWF/2:30-5:30
COXXFB1
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