Improving Public Transportation To Reduce Traffic Congestion In The Philippines
Road Congestion is a nationwide issue that causes local repercussions such as the increase of fuel consumption, the cost of travel and freight movement, the number of road casualties, and the atrocity of pollution that is harmful to human health. It is a conventional problem in Manila since it has a direct impact on the economic growth, societal expenses, and the state of the environment. As a result of traffic, the Philippines is losing P3. 5 billion a day due to the depletion of productivity and loss of potential income since people used sixty-six minutes of their lives stuck in traffic daily, and an average of twenty-four minutes trying to find a parking space.
It has been deduced by the chief representative with the help of the latest preliminary estimates by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) that the traffic cost will swing up to 5. 4 billion pesos a day in the year 2035 if the traffic congestion won’t be solved as early as possible. With the rapid ascension of vehicles on the road, it is vital for the government to improve the public transportation system in the Philippines in order to make people less prone in using private vehicles, which will lessen the severeness of traffic congestion. Improvement of public transportation correlates to the less usage of private vehicles for two reasons: (1) Many are opting to take private vehicles for its convenience, and (2) people prefer to utilize private vehicles due to the state of Philippines public transportation, which has become progressively abysmal to the point that it became a somewhat necessity to drive a car if one has the financial means to do so. The significance of urgently improving the systematic operation of public transportation is imperatively crucial since supposing the enhancement of mass transit is conducted, citizens will be more inclined to use public transportation.
The Government can improve on this firstly by improving the state of public vehicles and establishing an orderly loading and unloading areas for these transportations. Better public transport will contribute colossally to the decrease of traffic jams, as well as the reduction of carbon emission which will pivotally impact climate change.
Furthermore, the gentrifying of mass transit will not only lessen the deplorable condition of traffic, but it will also affect the development of the country. Ameliorated public transportation that is adequate for everyone has the capability to destroy social and economic gaps, as well as to improve the state of the environment, strengthen ecological sustainability, and lower the prices of public services, making it more accessible for everyone than it already is.
On that account, it is fundamental for the government to recognize the necessity of improving public transportation so as to achieve a near ideological idea of a labour-saving and fully efficient public transportation that has already been attained by developed countries. Henceforth, improving and prioritizing the enhancement of mass transportation is pivotal and relevant to the decrease of road congestion and to the increase of the country’s economic state.
