Tag: traffic

Metro Manila’s EDSA: laboratory of Filipino dysfunction

October 3, 2011 benign0 54 Comments

The other day, I got pulled over for turning into a U-turn slot on Metro Manila’s Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) at a time when I shouldn’t have. Unlike Chris Lao, however, I was in no position to go around stomping my feet claiming that I was not informed. There were signs leading to…

Civics, Culture, Development

Road rage and the Filipino ego – like navigating a bubble through a forest of pins

September 12, 2011 benign0 17 Comments

Any motorist who’s spent enough time negotiating Manila’s potholed streets will attest to how the Philippines’ surreal complex of culturally-ingrained bad manners, ill-thought-out road layouts, inconsistent law enforcement, and the overall unsightliness that blankets the Philippines’ capital cities contributes to an experience like no other. At the root of the banal dysfunction of Philippine-style motoring…

Civics, Crime, Culture

megget
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megget
on The Philippines’ outsourced justice system: why not outsource its executive and legislative branches too?
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DONN LISTON
on SO WHAT if Vice President Sara Duterte is impeached or not?
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benign0
on Filipinos need a proper “far right” party
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Gabsboy
on Filipinos need a proper “far right” party
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megget
on Filipinos need a proper “far right” party
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megget
on Filipinos need a proper “far right” party
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megget
on Filipinos need a proper “far right” party
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