Editorial
Ghosts’ Highways
THE recommendation of Police Provincial Director Ronald Lee to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan to finally act on the worsening situation in the province’s major highways is not timely. It is long overdue!
For too long, tricycles, pedicabs and kuligligs have been allowed to run leisurely on widened highways, often hugging the middle of the roads, unmindful of the hazards they pose to motorists and to themselves.
Seeing vehicles colliding head-on, trucks hitting slow-moving tricycles, pedicabs and kuligligs at night or being sideswiped by speeding vehicles, or pedestrians being hit by tricycles, pedicabs and kuligligs whose drivers are either ignorant or unfamiliar with traffic rules are not uncommon especially today when most major roads are already cemented and therefore prone to more vehicular accidents.
They have to be banned if we don’t want our highways to be known as “Ghosts’ Highways.”
But more than just asking the Land Transportation Office to deputize police officers to enforce national traffic rules, local governments must mandate barangays to help control movements of tricycles, pedicabs and kuligligs, particularly if residents have no other means to reach poblacion but the widened highways, to direct the three to travel only on outermost lanes to prevent needless accidents.
Trust and approval
WHEN President Duterte delivers his second Sona (State of the Nation Address) tomorrow [July 24], he enjoys unprecedented high marks in both trust and approval ratings from the reputable Pulse Asia Survey. Trust is having total belief in what a person does. Approval is never doubting a person’s ability to do things right. The June surveys showed Mr. Duterte’s approval rating jumped to 82 percent from 78 percent in March, scoring high on his illegal drug war and anti-graft and corruption drive. To quantify, the majority of Filipinos nationwide expressed trust in the President (from 73 percent to 97 percent) and approval of Mr. Duterte’s performance (from 75 percent to 95 percent). In all socioeconomic classes, Mr. Duterte enjoyed a massive approval of from 79 percent to 84 percent and trust from 77 percent to 85 percent.
Who said the country isn’t in good hands?
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