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Traffic Problem Essay

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Being stuck in traffic is a normal scenario in Metro Manila. What they call rush hour becomes rush hours and some areas do not even ease out until end of day. On a personal note, since changing jobs early this year, I haven’t dealt with heavy traffic because of my new work conditions. I have flexible working hours and locations provided I report within the core hours of the country I should mirror. I really have little to complain about but remembering how extreme the traffic situation was when I was working near the airport is why this paper is significant.
Managers of Metro Manila traffic have concentrated on volume control and adding road solutions to bottleneck traffic. It is difficult to lower the number of vehicles on the road and expand …show more content…

From a talk in school a month ago, there are several impacts that I have narrowed down to three:
1) Environmental aspect: apart from suffering from heavily polluted air, the increased vehicle exhausts in traffic jams have caused the ecological dreadful conditions. 70-80 % of air pollution in Metro Manila has been caused by motor vehicles and only 20-30 % is caused by emissions from industries. This was observed by the Department of Environment and Natural resources Secretary Ramon Paje. A world bank report health cost of air pollution has estimated $ 400M a year which is equivalent to 0.6% of the Philippines’ national GDP.
2) Country’s productivity loss: attributed to the delays and wasting of time/energy while driving or commuting.
3) Safety for pedestrians and other public transport riders: compromised speed that may cause accidents due to schedule interruptions.
Our government or any individual with the proper technological skills needs to define schemes to help solve traffic problems that Manila faces. Because our problem is inefficient, we need to address and focus our efforts in the use of evolving technologies and innovations as the foundation of the transport

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