Quezon’s dream now a nightmare

Inscribed on one of the pillars of the Quezon City Hall are the following words of the late president Manuel L. Quezon:

“I dream of a capital city that politically shall be the seat of the national government; aesthetically, the showplace of the nation.”

The late president must be squirming in his grave with what has been made of Quezon City today: squatters occupying its prime lots; streets, including major highways/roads, near terminals and pedestrian overpasses littered with almost all kinds of garbage and/or taken over by sidewalk vendors; and increasing number of tricycles and pedicabs using street corners or portions of roads as terminals, entering major roads and “counterflowing,” thus unnecessarily slowing down traffic.

Some of the country’s biggest media organizations (TV and radio) are based in Quezon City, and yet these problems are hardly tackled by, or brought to the attention of, government.

—DANTE G. HUERTA, MNSA,

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