"Letter to the Government"
Bernard Gabriel Victor E. Luceres
310 A. Tuazon St. Tondo , Manila
Hon. Francis N. Tolentino
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority
MMDA Building, EDSA corner St., Guadalupe, Makati City
Public safety is considered to be one of your jurisdictions. Streets are always cluttered, full of public transportation, private vehicle, and people passing by. To ensure their safety MMDA provide different kinds of projects in order to keep the roads safety for people. You also have a huge number of enforcers to make sure that there is order on the roads.
The Philippine National Police-Highway Patrol Group (PNP-HPG) tallied 11,414 road accidents on the year of 2011 from January to September. As a result, 1,074 souls were taken away because of bad over taking and over speeding alone. What do you expect when we add other cases of accidents such as drunk driving and broken facilities such as broken traffic lights, bumpy roads etc.? Improving facilities alone will not solve the problem because of the enforcers who is not serious in their job, just slacking and seeking money to the offenders.
I write this letter to inform you that there’s a lot of case of enforcers who is “kotong”. The traffic enforcers must undergo training before getting the job. Those kinds of enforcers are a bad image for the Philippines especially when foreigner experiences it firsthand.
You expect people on the roads to be well aware of the laws that are being implemented but the enforcers themselves don’t even know how to follow. Starting to make solutions to these problems today will make the roads in the Philippines to be safe. It may not be safe at all the time since we can’t avoid accidents but just lowering the number of accidents on the roads is an achievement.
I’m hoping that you will take action to these problems.
Bernard Gabriel Victor E. Luceres
De La Salle University-Manila
http://www.mmda.gov.ph/MMDAservices.html
http://www.tempo.com.ph/2011/10/1074-killed-in-road-accidents-from-january-september-this-year/#.UVxvyJP-GgY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Ht_19N8Uw