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[SIZE="4"]Indeed buses are the culprits[/SIZE]
MOTORING TODAY
By Ray Butch Gamboa SPMJ (The Philippine Star)
Updated October 27, 2010 12:00 AM

It seems that there is no denying that indeed the buses cause the traffic congestion along EDSA. In a recent newspaper report no less than Senator Ralph Recto, former NEDA head who confirmed the statistics that EDSA’s physical tolerance for buses has been far exceeded, and sadly caused by the presence of unlicensed, illegal or colorum buses. This leads me again to the question, “Whatever happened to the supposedly no nonsense drive against colorum buses visibly conducted by the MMDA lead by its new leadership in its first days of office? They seem to have fizzled out as fast as it flashed in the pan.”

If I remember right, one of the major justifications of the “odd-even” traffic reduction scheme, which was supposed to be implemented on private vehicles, was that it can mathematically reduce the traffic volume in half. Having claimed that, why doesn’t the MMDA apply this scheme to the buses to immediately reduce their over population in half?

Is the lobby of bus operators really that strong?