Traffic in BGC

[IMm29]

One irritant when i go to MOA and Podium. Those parking elevators. I end up taking the stairs.

Yeah! Really slow ones. Tsk tsk!

Well, despite having been in BGC (St Luke's) for over a week, today was the only time I got to travel from 1 end of BGC to the other. Miss the old days when the only life was in the Shell stopover area. So many traffic lights that slow the flow down. And why close down the McKinley parkway. Is there any real benefit?

[ronki]

Maybe a strategy to "anger" BGC employees so that instead of commuting/driving to work, they would just end up purchasing/renting condo units in the area...

[vinj]

Yeah! Really slow ones. Tsk tsk!

Well, despite having been in BGC (St Luke's) for over a week, today was the only time I got to travel from 1 end of BGC to the other. Miss the old days when the only life was in the Shell stopover area. So many traffic lights that slow the flow down. And why close down the McKinley parkway. Is there any real benefit?

Yeah... It was only Shell, S&R and the Fort Strip. Then Speedzone also came along as well (nakasabay ko pa si Goma at si Tikboy minsan). We used to have the car club EBs in one of the many empty lots.

I practically lived in St. Lukes BGC when my grandfather got sick. Good thing they had adjusted parking rates for patients who were checked-in.

[IMm29]

Yeah... It was only Shell, S&R and the Fort Strip. Then Speedzone also came along as well (nakasabay ko pa si Goma at si Tikboy minsan). We used to have the car club EBs in one of the many empty lots.

I practically lived in St. Lukes BGC when my grandfather got sick. Good thing they had adjusted parking rates for patients who were checked-in.

Yeah, Speedzone. Hehehe! Ok dun at least open space. For some reason, I get kinda claustrophobic racing indoors. Sabagay, the one in Park Square is pretty dark.

P50 flat rate per day, big help for long termers. Di naman sila strict sa validated receipt.

[_Cathy_]

I can't believe that's been more than 8 years ago! I tried speedzone just once. It's money burned in just a few minutes lang kasi.

[lowslowbenz]

Miss those Fat Willy's days too.

[_Cathy_]

^I was there all the time. But I was still in college then. Is there still Mule in the market?

[lowslowbenz]

^
De ja vu? Wala na ata.

BTW re: Hoegaarten Beer (spell check?) Robinsons grocery has them, same with Chimay and Warsteiner.

[_Cathy_]

^
De ja vu? Wala na ata.

BTW re: Hoegaarten Beer (spell check?) Robinsons grocery has them, same with Chimay and Warsteiner.

Hoegaarden my favorite It's also available at S&R. What I'm looking for is Krombacher.

OT na naman

[lowslowbenz]

^
OT: I bet meron yan either Clark or Subic duty free.

BTT: Read on the news SM Aura was built illegally, hmmmm ... somebody did not get paid.

[_Cathy_]

^
OT: I bet meron yan either Clark or Subic duty free.

BTT: Read on the news SM Aura was built illegally, hmmmm ... somebody did not get paid.

It's too far e.

I've long decided to boycott SM for their lack (or absence) of business ethics.

[_Cathy_]

Yeah! Really slow ones. Tsk tsk!

Well, despite having been in BGC (St Luke's) for over a week, today was the only time I got to travel from 1 end of BGC to the other. Miss the old days when the only life was in the Shell stopover area. So many traffic lights that slow the flow down. And why close down the McKinley parkway. Is there any real benefit?

Isn't it to make SM Aura less accessible to cars. I was surprised to when they did the reroute. You can't go straight na from Mc Kinley. All traffic have to turn left or right na lang.

[lowslowbenz]

^

I'll check if and when I'm back there.

[jut703]

Why is BCDA complaining only now? It's not like they didn't know what was being built in the area a few years back. Kinda hard to miss a big mall you know..

[111prez]

Access road from McKinley is open

Just passed there this lunchtime

[jansky]

when SM Aura open to public and the traffic worsen.. my alternative road is going to mckinley then C5, less traffic

[ghosthunter]

Isn't it to make SM Aura less accessible to cars. I was surprised to when they did the reroute. You can't go straight na from Mc Kinley. All traffic have to turn left or right na lang.

I think that was done on purpose by the BDC company to make going to SM AURA a very long trip. In the end, the common people gets the short straw in the entire conflict.

[baludoy]

interesting read in yesterday's jaruis bondoc philstar article re the harassment thingy the bcda has been doing against the sm aura management

Behind last week’s inaugural of the ritzy SM Aura is a bitter fight between the national and the local government. And as always it is the private entity that gets miserably caught in the middle.

The multi-use shopping mall and office condo SM Aura sits on a 3.4-hectare portion of the 40-hectare Taguig Civic Center. In 2006 and 2008 the Bases Conversion and Development Authority had bequeathed the estate to the city, with no restrictions on land use or property zoning. The Taguig city hall promptly auctioned off parcels to private developers. In 2010 SM Prime Holdings Inc. won public biddings to lease two separate lots, on which it built a P3.5-billion, 30-storey complex. The first six floors consist of swanky shops and restaurants, the next 12 of government offices and Filipino businesses, and the last 12 of multinational companies. SM veered away from its usual giant shoebox design to erect an ultramodern artistic structure for high-end businesses.

While SM Aura’s construction was ongoing, the BCDA questioned Taguig City’s commercial development of the area. Supposedly, the latter had breached certain terms on land use for exclusively public purposes. City hall debunked the BCDA claim, pointing out that the land titles and deeds of conveyance contained no such terms or annotations. SM Prime also won a Supreme Court injunction of the BCDA’s plan to retake and rebid Aura’s property for its own grand development.

Unable to argue ownership or authority over the estate, the BCDA turned on SM Prime. It barred the developer from paving old unfinished roads, particularly the McKinley Parkway leading to Forbes Park-Makati and other contiguous commercial and residential zones. ( i think someone here asked what's the reason behind those unpaved access roads-me) SM said it had public safety and convenience in mind in undertaking the roadwork, for which city hall had issued the approvals and permits. BCDA replied that it owns the land on which the roads were being paved. City hall interjected that, under the Local Government Code, it had jurisdiction over all roads, public or private, within its boundaries.

And so SM suffers from yet another conflict between national and local policy.


Insincere Taiwanese leader politicizing poacher?s killing | Opinion, News, The Philippine Star | philstar.com

[vinj]

Miss those Fat Willy's days too.

^I was there all the time. But I was still in college then. Is there still Mule in the market?

Kasali daw si C4U sa "contest"at Fat Willys.

Yeah, looks like someone was left out of the SM Aura party and is throwing a tantrum.

Got stuck in traffic in BGC last night. Did not move for 10-15 minutes along 32nd Street. As soon as i could turn off, i went to Market Market and ate shawarma. Ironically, on my way home after, C5 was free all the way to QC after getting through Kalayaan.

[fourtheboys96]

I'm siding with BCDA here hehehe.

We have too much SM already.