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  1. Join Date
    Jan 2007
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    #1
    Last night, wednesday, Sept 16, there was a huge traffic jam ( i got stuck between banawe and a bonifacio, less than a kilometer of distance, for over 2 hours ) There was sudden rain downpour and the traffic enforcers disappeared completely.

    Obviously compounding the situation is too many stop lights in that short stretch of road. Thus, from corner Quezon Avenue, there is a new stop light at ( iam not sure if this is retiro st ) caltex corner just few meters from old stoplight at corner Delmonte then another new stoplight at corner going to Kaingin road, also just a few meters from old stop light at corner Banawe.

    whoever is the BIG IDIOT that came up with the idea to put up the new stoplights should be shot at Luneta because it is now the cause of daily heavy traffic in that stretch of road as the heavy flow of vehicles easily get caught in middle of street when signals turn red. So C3 which was once a quick route to escape the bumper to bumper at EDSA going to Monumento or NLEX is now a bottleneck as well.

    And the worse of it all is that left turn and right turn is allowed on these stoplight crossings to accommodate maybe 2 or 3 cars making that turn as against the heavy volume going straight toward corner A Bonifacio.

    which makes one really wonder -

    1. where are the police traffic enforcers
    2. where are the mmda traffic enforcers
    3. where are the barangay traffic enforcers
    4. why quezon city doesnt seem to have its own traffic unit like Makati MAPA, Pasig Traffic unit , Kalookan Traffic unit etc.

    With a gargantuan budget and a big area to govern, quezon city government must have its hands full barely coping with the traffic and collecting parking fees at city hall compound which by the way used to be free parking area but now reserved to the privileged city hall officials and employees while qc taxpayers and guests must shell out cash for parking.

  2. Join Date
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    #2
    Another example of your taxes at work.

  3. Join Date
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    #3
    I thought only "Hero" the "Pink Panther" makes the entire Metro Manila with "only in the Philippines' crazy ideas" . :hysterical:

  4. Join Date
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    #4
    More often than not, the reason behind an illogically placed traffic light is some idiot out there who caused an accident at said spot.

    Automatic response to prevent accidents? Install a traffic light! Never mind the fact that it slows down the already crawling rate of traffic in the area.

  5. Join Date
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    #5
    Quote Originally Posted by jave View Post
    More often than not, the reason behind an illogically placed traffic light is some idiot out there who caused an accident at said spot.

    Automatic response to prevent accidents? Install a traffic light! Never mind the fact that it slows down the already crawling rate of traffic in the area.
    Actually the automatic response is "speedbump".

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    #6
    WTF... that was also my route to NLEX since the EDSA - LRT construction began.

  7. Join Date
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    #7
    actually makatulong yung new stop lites sa araneta-retiro and araneta-side street papasok ng grace school. kasi nung wala pang stop light dyan kanya kanyang singit lalong nag kaka trapik lalo na pag may pasok ang grace. too many cars going in and out to grace tapos kahit puno na di magbibigyan.

    kakainis lang tigil ng tigil but pansin ko mas nakatulong talga.

    ingatan nyo yung pulis sa a. bonifacio, gutom na gutom yun daming imbento na violations pero pag PUV sige lang kahit sa gitna mag sakay or kahit beating the red lite

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    #8
    I agree that the stoplight at Sgt. Rivera cor. Sto. Domingo (going inside Grace) is a big help. Pero yung Araneta cor. Retiro (its now known as Amoranto) medyo di na kailangan to be honest...

  9. Join Date
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    #9
    Accident prone kasi sa lugar na yan. Aside from medyo twisting ang kalye medyo delikado rin ang lugar. Once na involve ka sa crash dyan laki tsansa ubos ang gamit mo.

    Tsaka talagang terible trapik kahapon dahil sa biglang buhos ng ulan sigurado bumaha sa España kaya abot Del Monte buntot ng traffic going to Welcome Rotonda

  10. Join Date
    Feb 2007
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    #10
    may ibang stop light na nakakatulong, pero meron din namang iba na nakakasagabal lang... sana lang naman ay pagaralan kung makabubuti o makakasama ang paglagay... hindi na kasi biro ang traffic ngayon, kaya kung nakadagdag pa yung idea sa traffic at ang dahilan is may naaksidente, siguro naman dapat pag isipan ulit ng mabuti, maling dahilan yan...

    there is this area in mandaluyong na dinadaanan ko nasira yung stoplight for about a month... nung walang stop light mas magaan ang flow ng traffic... yup nag uunahan pero may bigayan, may mga incidents na may ibang ayaw pasingit, but not to the extent na mag create ng bottlenecks... swerte lang at walang PUV na dumadaan dun kaya siguro ganun... inuulit ko walang PUV kaya siguro ganun... ulitin ko... wag na... gets nyo na

Too many Stupid Traffic Lights Along C-3 ( Araneta extension to Kalookan )