‘Wang-wang wee’ TABLETS OF STONE Larry Faraon, OP 07/04/2010

‘Wang-wang wee’

TABLETS OF STONE Larry Faraon, OP 07/04/2010 The “wang-wang” traffic mess experience of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino must have traumatized him deeply that it bit a mouthful in his inaugural speech at the Quirino Grandstand last Wednesday. Immediately, as if on cue, the Land Transportation Office (LTO), like new born suckers (sip-sip) enthusiastically ganged up on siren bearing vehicles and drivers as if the latter were wanted traffic violators of the criminal genre. Then on the first day of his working day, the newly installed President cruised Times Street toward Camp Aguinaldo without the usual eardrum bashing sirens from the Presidential Security Vehicles and violated the time honored military punctuality by 35 minutes. Besides the usual excuse of “traffic jams” some people may have thought “why should there be a rush” — as one popular car sticker writes, “Don’t follow me, I’m on my way to work.” Punctuality belongs to the ethics of work and professionalism. Precisely, this the role of those sirens — a man who leads and governs a 90 million population to development and progress cannot afford to waste away man hours in traffic jams, stopping at every red light at every intersection, unless the passenger or the driver himself is delighted by the flashes of intermittent changing of colors from green to red to orange and so on. There is work to do and delays cannot be tolerated especially when this country has a fresh mandate to enthusiastically participate in a highly underscored promise of reforms. The people are willing to work with this new government, and they want to fast track the backlog. Unwanted delays betrays a less serious attitude towards a commitment to do a job.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100704com6.html

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