Students should study traffic and disasater management
LEARNING FROM METRO MANILA
BINMALEY—Metro Manila Development Authority Chairman Francis Tolentino has a proposal to address worsening traffic problems around the country: Make college students study and learn traffic management and disaster management.
He said this is a viable proposition through National Service Training Program (NSTP) if a law would be passed allowing it.
Tolentino said the training of college students will provide long term solutions to traffic management problems in every town/city particularly during festivals and pubic events where heavy traffic flow is expected.
He was in town to attend the Sigay Festival and must have noted the bottleneck that the event created as in all towns that host festivals.
The students could can even be tapped during flooding for rescue operations, he added.
If this is implemented, the local governments may no longer need the assistance from Camp Aguinaldo or the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, he said.
“Let us change the concept that if it is traffic management it is just the traffic enforcers’ concern. Traffic management must be everybody’s concern,” he said.
REGULATE BILLBOARDS
Meanwhile, Tolentino urged local government units to implement what Metro Manila LGUs failed to do about regulating billboards in their towns and citites.
Citing the eyesore that billboards have created in Metro-Manila, he said “This early, LGUs outside Metro Manila must plan now on what to do with billboards and the allowable size.”
He said Singapore, Hong Kong, Honolulu, China are billboard-free.
“The Philippines is billboard capital so perhaps this early there should be ordinance for uniformed size and observe what is stated under the National Building Code,” Tolentino said.—Tita Roces
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