‘Respect for law’? Look again, MMDA

The ruckus over that Maserati incident is already getting out of hand. The Metro Manila Development Authority is so “overacting” it makes us want to puke! It said it’s going all-out to give moral support to the traffic enforcer who was “kinaladkad” daw by the arrogant traffic violator. It asserted this is about respect for authority, respect for the law!

Brave, noble words, but utterly meaningless. How has the MMDA asserted its authority over jeepney drivers who never turn on the headlights at night? That strange phenomenon has gone unchecked and has now spread all over Metro Manila. The MMDA’s traffic enforcers are seriously either too dumb or too corrupt to see anything wrong with that. To many of us motorists, it is not only illegal, it is by far a greater insult to the MMDA’s authority and an even greater menace to public safety.

This is not to say yet about the farce those huge “no loading or unloading” signages have become as jeepney drivers unload or load passengers right under them and right in the faces of the MMDA traffic enforcers! Those spots have become chokepoints everywhere. So what “respect for the law” is the MMDA talking about?

—JANNO M. MONTECRISTO,

jama.monte@yahoo.com.ph