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The rapidly increasing rate and severity of road accidents, especially with the seemingly geometric rise in two-wheeled vehicles, have led the government to look for a holistic solution—a road-safety consortium of government and private groups focused wholly on the problem.
For this, the government set up in late February the Global Road Safety Partnership-Philippines Inc. (GRSP-Phil. Inc.) with an initial P1.5 million to find ways of communal efforts to reduce traffic-accident casualties and to identify and promote relevant good road-safety and driving practices.
Transportation Assistant Secretary Anneli Lontoc said in a statement, “I am hopeful that GRSP-Phil. Inc. will energize and encourage the local partners to identify and work together to develop and implement projects designed to improve road safety and mitigate the consequences of road casualties, and I would like also to extend my appreciation to the various private organizations who have shown support to this endeavor.”
Any government institution, civil society or people’s organization, business and international and development and/or donor-agency can be members of the organization.
Among those who signed up were the Road Board, Land Transportation Office, Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board, Department of Public Works and Highways, Tollways Management Corp., South Luzon Tollways Corp., PEA-Tollways Corp., Pilipinas Shell, Toyota Motor Philippines Corp., UP-National Center for Transportation Studies Foundation, Automobile Association Philippines, 3M Philippines, Truck Manufacturers Association, Cemex Philippines, Chevron Philippines (Caltex), CAMPI, Honda Safety Driving Center, MDPPA, Petron Corp., Safekids Philippines and the Philippine Accident Management Inc.
by Lennie Lectura, Business Mirror
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Kerchieval Balingit
It’s a proactive approach by the government and private sectors against road accident. It’s good to know that we are making our ways to deal with such increasing problem.
Just to inquire, how could a private sector join such consortium? Who do we need to contact?
Any info regarding our concerns will be much appreciated.
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Noel C. Dolor
I do believe that Filipinos need to drasticallly take up safe driving courses, especially our public transport drivers–they have great disregard for the passengers’ safety and treat the roads as if they were karerahans. It is very uncivilized, annoying and irritating, and reflects on the boorish attitudes of Filipinos! Why can’t anybody have the guts to give them the proper training on the aspects of road safety? Perhaps we can follow the standards set by the Kowloon Motor Bus of Hong Kong, where their drivers are given the proper training and stringent tests before they can get behind the wheel of the big buses.
Driving is not only a right, but let it also be a responsibility that people must take seriously. . . when will we ever learn?