Quote Originally Posted by jave View Post
Oh, I do check them. Twice, thrice, in fact. If you are offended by them, I suggest cooling down and rereading the entire thing more. Because what I described in my previous post about people unconsciously defending the imbeciles rings true with your reply.

Never have I said that all 2-wheels are idiots. Only a good majority of them. So, why are you getting angry? If you think you consider yourself one of the rarities, a disciplined rider with a good knowledge of road rules, a sense of basic respect towards what you are and towards other people, and full knowledge of what's right or wrong; in addition to bashing those morons out there, why should you be angry whenever "outsiders" also bash them, somewhat more mercilessly?
You don't get it. I'm not defending the idiots. Nowhere in my post does it imply that I'm defending any road idiot. By all means keep bashing the idiots. What is wrong is you making an IQ claim without any basis. I hate baseless claims and that is what I highlighted in your post. An IQ claim not based on facts and without scientific merit only he said she said from car forums and car fanatics. Your post was fine until the IQ statement. Sweeping claims with no basis should be avoided just like racists should stop generalizing other races with baseless comments. Baseless sweeping claims can backfire as I mentioned with the generalization of car drivers argument in my post. That kind of baseless statement makes the person look like just another car or motorcycle fanatic who fails to see the two sides of the coin.

Rather than IQ/EQ deficiency, I would use the term ignorant instead. Most MC riders are ignorant of proper road usage such also applies to car drivers. Whether it is caused by their lack of proper driving education or just the filipino driving attitude where almost everyone doesn't follow the rules and just joins the offenders in their way of driving/riding. "If you can't beat them, join them" mentality.

I've been in many debate competitions in my college years so it's a habit of mine to answer back baseless statements. I drive cars and ride big bikes so I see the errors of both parties.


Motorcycle lanes are often mentioned as a solution at car forums. Sadly motorcycle lanes will not work and are impractical if you really take time to study it and see how much it would make traffic worse and the amount of money it takes to implement. If a law is made to make motorcycle lanes, that would mean 1 lane on every road will have to be made MC only. That means 1 less lane to be used by traffic inducing cars on the road. Add the filipino driving attitude to the equation and you will see cars/trucks/puv's all violating the MC lane due to the immense traffic on the streets. If that happens what would be the point in even having a segregated MC lane then? That is precisely why MC lanes will not work in the country and will actually make things worse.

The only real solution is law enforcement. Force the bad drivers/riders to learn their mistakes by giving them fines/penalties so they will learn what not to do on the road. Sadly with the police force in the country that is not happening anytime soon.

Taking a zero tolerance policy and proper enforcement of the road rules for a period of about a year should be enough time to teach most filipinos how to properly drive. That is the only solution that I can see will work. If the government would do that it would probably make the national budget increase by a big amount due to the fines/penalties collected considering the amount of bad drivers and riders in the country.