Anarchy on the highways

AS more highways in the province are being widened purposely to improve flow of traffic, we are seeing deadly results literally.

There are more vehicular accidents being reported involving farmers, motorcycles and tricycles these days.  Among the regular causes are over-speeding by vehicles, particularly buses, occupancy of cemented shoulder roads by farmers for drying their farm produce (palay, corn, mongo beans, etc.) and by cargo trucks for parking, hugging of center lanes by slow moving motorcycles and tricycles, installation of barriers and signage on the shoulder by stores, churches and schools, etc.

Through all these, there has been no effort whatsoever on the part of local governments, the Land Transportation Office and the PNP-Highway Patrol Group to regulate the use of the new widened killer highways.  There are existing laws, ordinances and rules that no agency cares to enforce, and these are only invoked after accidents have happened, after lives were lost and properties destroyed only for purposes of claiming damages. There is absolute anarchy on the highways.

A summit by and among the LTO, PNP-HPG and LGUs traversed by widened highways must be called by the provincial government for a unified approach as soon as possible to keep the provinces’ highways safe and prevent loss and destruction of lives and properties.

Losing Leni

LOOK, losing Leni Robredo more than crystallized President Duterte’s message to his subalterns: If you are not with me, you are against me.  You work for Duterte, you need to follow his Three Ps—Program, Platform and Policy—with all your heart, mind and soul. Alas, time and again, Leni loved to vociferously voice her opposition to Duterte’s Three Ps—openly at that.  That is a no-no because every Cabinet member, like Leni being the Housing Secretary, is the absolute alter ego of the President.  And an alter ego must, at all times, go to wherever the President wishes to go.  Just one dissenting member from the President’s team could instantly derail the team’s overall mission.  Thus, even as Digong admitted it was with a heavy heart for him to see Leni go, he had no choice but to drop her like a hot potato.

Teamwork is the bedrock of any administration’s dream to succeed.

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