The traffic situation in Metro Manila has gone from bad to worse within the last five years. Agree/disagree?
Jaime L. Garcia
Barring disasters, it's pretty much the same. With disasters, especially with the aftermath of the flooding, worse.
David Ramirez
It's always worse. The population grew and is growing faster than urban planning can handle. Even without the floods, today's traffic is terrible… and that's with the 16+ year lag from a child being born to having to start commuting to and from work. The infrastructure can't handle it. It would be different if we were a really rich country that can afford giant public projects (a true subway system that covers 80% of NCR rather than just a few LRT/MRT lines; a computerized traffic system with dynamic load-balancing rather than relying on timed lights and lots of inefficient u-turns; giant underground spillways to prevent flooding, etc). But we're not. Even if our population growth dropped to zero now, the traffic will still grow over the next 20 years that today's babies and kids start working/ polluting (independently of their families), before it reached a steady state that would let infrastructure catch up.
Clair Ching
Agree! Ugh
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