Waste of taxpayer money

Dear Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista,

Commonwealth Avenue is said to be the widest national road in the entire country with 10 lanes on both directions. One would naturally expect a very smooth flow of traffic.

But kindly see how pitiful our daily commuters are in this long stretch of Commonwealth Avenue especially during early mornings. You will find them occupying as many as two lanes of the highway waiting for their ride.

When a bus slows down to load and unload passengers, it cannot take the rightmost lane because commuters are swarming on the incoming bus so it has to stop at the third or fourth lane of the highway causing other vehicles to slow down or stop.

Your blue boys don’t care about this. They are busy looking at the plate numbers of vehicles they could flag down for violating the number-coding scheme and you know what happens next.

This is a daily occurrence, Mr. Mayor, from Monday to Friday. Has anyone not told you about this? Don’t you think this is something you can easily remedy because all you need is to build appropriate waiting sheds and for your blue boys to enforce and implement basic rules on queuing?

Stop the useless and wasteful projects in our city like installing street signs in plush villages when there are already existing and more prominent street signs! Whoever initiated this kind of project should be sent to jail for wasting taxpayer money, Mr. Mayor.

In the last remaining year of your term, I sincerely appeal to you to please do something for the people of Quezon City that they will remember you for.

RICARDO J.M. RIVERA, Esq., [email protected]