The MM traffic cannot be solved if we continue the current trajectory of development.
Imagine - 30% of the country's vehicles are registered in Metro Manila which has less than 1% of the country's total land area. Add the vehicles that go to MM during the day.

The only solution to this is to prevent people from using cars going in and out of the metropolis. How?

1. Build/rehabilitate the railway system north and south of MM. We recently went to La Union and my wife said they used to visit their dad's relatives there using the train. If we can have a decent PNR, people do not need to live in metro manila to work there, to not need to bring cars to go there. Alam naman natin na alam ng govt officials ang solution, ayaw lang nila gawin.

2. Decentralize a bit. I remember GMA's plan to have growth areas in different regions. Okay sana yun kasi hindi lahat ng tao sa probinsya sa Metro Manila na lang pupunta para mag-work. A plenary speaker of an urban sustainability conference I attended years ago said that cities are not bad, per se but we need poly-centrous development para hindi congested ang isang lugar.