Monday Traffic

A few Mondays ago, about 6 in the morning, my daughter and I went to our usual spot to wait for our ride. This picture is what we saw that morning, fading our hopes to get to our respective places of destination early. The bottleneck was at the crossing/junction. Since we were supposed to turn right, many of the queuing vehicles were occupying our lane so we also suffered their plight.

I just can’t understand how these bottlenecks emerge. Shouldn’t there be some cause before bottlenecks form? Well, in this particular case, there isn’t any obvious cause. Does this mean that the roads are getting smaller? Or is it the other way around, that there are too many vehicles on the road nowadays?

Of course, this snag in vehicular flow is not limited to the streets where I pass; it’s almost every where in Metro Manila. I just don’t know what the MMDA are doing about it. For one thing, it looks like MMDA is only focused on infrastructure as a solution. If this observation is correct then that would be too bad. Information should also be part of the solution starting with drivers’ education. So if you think you have some answers, why not put some here at the comments.