The city government of Manila did a good job at making a stretch of España, within the vicinity of the University of Santo Tomas, attractive by installing gleaming streetlights and prettified street islands. It gives the impression that the place is safe and secure. That is why my wife and I usually enjoy strolling along this street on Sunday nights.
However, vandals have stained the waiting sheds. There are already drawings and inscriptions on them. They now look morbid as if they were the meeting places of gangsters.
Taxpayers like us, who should enjoy these beautiful projects of the government, are disheartened by those who probably are not paying their taxes.
—REGINALD B. TAMAYO,
acting city council secretary,
Marikina City
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