Effects Of Traffic Congestion In The Philippines

INTRODUCTION

How do people feel about traffic? It is obviously hate by everyone. One of the most common reasons why people came in their school or work late is these synonymous words like gridlock and congestion. Traffic situations in the Philippines were always one of the worst situations anyone would know. There is a reason why popular novelist Dan Brown – author of ‘The Da Vinci Code’ and ‘Angels and Demons’ – mentioned Metro Manila’s monumental traffic jams in his book ‘Inferno’ (Flat Planet, 2014).

Traffic congestion is prevalent primarily in the cities. The main avenues of cities and even the secondary roads are often congested, and the problems of traffic congestion have become so stern that the economy is pretentious. While total reduction of congestion is next to impossible in the Philippines, unswerving and staid efforts to improve transportation infrastructure for Metro Manila including much delayed mass transport systems can translate to indisputable benefits.

Many studies have been indited on the economic costs of congested traffic, and they customarily consider such factors such as cost of traffic value of time lost due to delay, fuel prices, conveyance operating costs, effects on health, and greenhouse gas emissions (Traffic Problems in the Philippines and Proposed Solutions, 2014).

Congestion is a real social crisis that needs to be resolute because of its severe effects. In a nutshell, it isolates people from their diverse activities such as business,