Yes, indeed.... the traffic was much lighter as where if some dipshit pos m$%*(&(f&^*&^ pissed you off and your adrenaline got going you could shove his bike quite a ways after you launched him 20 feet with your bare hands.... not so easy now as more have bigger heavier bikes and far more cars....

 

Is there nothing else that could use P 8.75 million per year of improvement?

 

Don't worry about that. Plenty of it will go towards improving houses, boats, cars, clothes, etc.

 

A bridge that doesn't collapse at least once a year? Or is that to much to ask for....

 

Looks like, it 's just a matter of priorities for the local government. A collapsed bridge seems low rated after all there's still another one. Not talking about the damaged spillway still unable to use but again lucky for us there is another one with cracked ramps.

 

They wouldn't still be there at all. They would be quickly taken down and misplaced, i.e. sold off to another city for local politician pocket money.

 

FWIW, the mayor is talking about tow truck coming to Dumaguete in 2019, too. Those will likely be put to immediate and frequent use once they discover the "profit" center that a tow program can be. They should also get a few of those flatbed trucks with cranes to enforce motorcycle parking. They should set up the impound lot in Bajumpandan somewhere beyond the NORSU campus to make retrieval inconvenient as possible, and the office to pay the fines in the farther reaches Candu-ay. The parking violations would shrink to near zero inside of a week.

Traffic lights, or no traffic lights? Makes no difference because there is no enforcement of any kind, and too many drivers have no driver training and/or no license (or a license acquired from a fixer) and therefore have no clue as to even basic rules of the road. But I am constantly amazed at how well the busy but uncontrolled intersections seem to work...but only for assertive drivers who are also willing to offer a break here and there.

Another factor is that the traffic "engineers" evidently trained (and flunked) at Keystone Kops University. There is no coordination of new construction or reconstruction, nor any rational thought given to traffic patterns. The Banica Bridge behind Hypermart has been out of service for months, yet they decide to cut off half of the bridge on the National Road without waiting for the other bridge to be repaired and opened. Stupid.

First thing that needs to go, IMHO, is streets that are one-way only during certain periods. A one-way street should be one-way street all the time.

 

Traffic light is not a good idea, many here already mention the reasons, of course, no one respect rules. I'm grateful to the traffic controllers, they do a great job IMHO