Best Posts in Thread: Traffic Plan 7(f)

And there have been at least 162 threads concerning traffic on this forum. sh*t will not change, politicians will never make a difference and traffic will always be stupid in the Philippines. Simple as that. Everyone thinks they know the solution but no solution, aside from cutting the population to 1/10th it's current day-time numbers would make a d*mn bit of difference. Too many people in too small of a area.

What the...?? That's the most retarded thing I've heard this year.

Ridiculous statement. Let me guess....you are retired and don't have to be anywhere at any given time? The world doesn't revolve around old retired people, the majority of us have to work so our governments can continue to collect taxes so you keep getting your pension. We don't have time to walk or ride our bikes to work.

Exactly how old are you? Most cities are for walking? Almost every city in the world has roads with cars driving on them. There might be certain districts in a city that don't allow traffic but they certainly don't have a city-wide vehicle ban.

 

Which would likely create "super conflict points", which will back up even further and create more massive and lengthy traffic jams. Then people will avoid those "conflict points" by taking back-roads which will congest areas that were not congested before.

Solve one problem and create another. So where will all of the people be parking? Park outside the city limits and then walk 1km+ in the heat or get a trike? Kinda defeats the purpose of owning a car doesn't it? And public transportation is one of the biggest causes of congestion in Dumaguete.

The problem with Dumaguete is that the daytime population soars to around 400k+ people. The city was never "designed" to handle anywhere near that many people. (I really doubt there was any city planning, it kinda just grew from a small town in to what it is now with no, or very little, thought put into it. Planning for the future is not a strong trait in 3rd world countries, especially the Philippines.)

Another problem is there are absolutely no traffic lights and the few signs that exist are largely ignored because not a single traffic law is enforced in Dumaguete. Even if there were stop signs and lights 90% of the drivers in Dumaguete wouldn't know how to properly proceed through them (right on red, left on red for one ways, yellow means slow down if you can safely- not speed up, who goes first when two people stop at a stop sign at the same time, etc). People just do as they please or what they feel is right, and with no driver's education that is usually the opposite of what is supposed to happen.

The solution? Limit families to having 1 child and it will sort itself out in 50-100 years. lol

Dumaguete is a small provincial town that grew too big for its britches, nothing aside from demolishing the entire city, hiring some very competent city planners and starting over will ease the traffic issue. Because:

1. Trikes, jeepneys and public transportation will always be needed, you can blame them all you like but they aren't going anywhere.
2. The people of the Philippines are poor and will continue to be poor for a very very long time, so they will continue buy motorcycles because that's what they can afford. Getting through traffic will always be easier on a motorcycle because of that.
3. ALL levels of government in the Philippines ARE corrupt and incompetent and will be continue to be corrupt and incompetent for a very very long time, so they will continue to screw up everything they touch. They will fix nothing...ever! If they fix one problem they will only do so by creating 3 more problems that didn't exist before.

If you hate traffic and can't stand it don't move to the Philippines...or move to the Philippines but live way out in the province and live like a local.