Love

Living in Roxas City for the past 20 years may seem long enough for me to understand it. Yes, indeed it is a small place and you can travel it from border to border in just a day. But what is dominant in this small city? People here are peace lovers. Yes, there maybe problems here and there but all in all, the people here are contented in the way they live. Time may pass by and it may seem that development is still slowly getting up to its heels, not to mention the growing number of the citizens who inhabit this city. With that in mind, we might consider the things that we usually see daily that has never been carried out to be developed. That is the traffic condition.

We are very much aware of the different problems that involve the traffic situations that we encounter. From the oil price hike to the rollback, accompanied by the roller coaster ride of our fare rates, to the different colored, unidentified vehicles monitored by our traffic enforcers; these are the usual problems that we encounter daily. But, have we ever thought of the rise in the number of vehicles that cross the streets of Roxas? Almost every year, the Roxas City government releases new set of city numbers for the tricycles and registers new vehicles from two-wheels and above, including the newly established city taxis that roam the city. Indeed, we are increasing the number of vehicles that occupies the street but our streets are still in the same width. As a result, we are stuck in heavy traffic in key areas of the city during rush hours. I think it is time for us to consider some arrangements that could help our current traffic conditions.

As a student, it is vital for me to be early enough to avoid lock-ups in traffic. Having our major roads in “one-way” has indeed helped me pass through heavy traffic since my high school days, a time when the fare rate was just P3.00. I think it is time for the city to have our own traffic lights. There are a number of positive outcomes that could help all the people in Roxas City whenever it will be approved. One of which is that it could minimize the duties of our traffic officers in areas where it is always having major traffic problems. It could help them carry on with their other duties such as keeping traffic violators from doing mischief and watching-over those drivers from traveling without registering their vehicles first. It could also prevent drivers from complaining to traffic enforcers in the way they control the traffic.

If there might be a problem for this to be of possibility, one thing that I myself could see is that the drivers will have a hard time adjusting to the traffic lights. But in any case, it will still be just a minor hitch. It’s just a case of getting a little used to it. For sure, it will be properly discussed to the drivers before having it constructed. Well, it’s not going to be like every road here in Roxas will be having these traffic lights, but to major highways that have four-way roads or crossroads. For example, in places where there are too many students or hospitals, like in Fuentes Drive , the city plaza, corner Hughes Street and Burgos Street or such places in which heavy traffic is observed.
In life we must adjust ourselves in the never-ending process of development. We don’t have to look if who are those above or below us. We just need to keep up with the changes that we meet. Today it’s still a dream; tomorrow it will be green, yellow, and red.

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