If you travel along the roads of Ortigas Extension, you’d know the struggle shown in the photos below. In fact, as soon as you see the photos, I’m sure you can already feel the pain.
(Photo source: Precy Aoalin)
The photo above and the one below were posted on Facebook along with the caption:
“Paging (Taytay, Cainta,Pasig) traffic authority. Everyday Travel 3-4 hours from Tikling Taytay Rizal to Crossing. #LateSaWork #TanggalSaWork”
For those who can’t relate, let me give you a quick scenario based on my daily commutes:
(Photo source: Precy Aoalin)
I leave the house at 7:00am every morning. A few years back, this would’ve been just right to get to Makati on time by 10:00am, with all factors included such as waiting for a UV Express and getting stuck in traffic.
(See also: Traffic in Manila will reportedly ease up soon)
Now, it’s not!
And for some reasons, there isn’t a single apparent reason for it. It’s just, I guess, a poorly managed traffic flow and an overflow of excessive cars. That’s pretty much it.
Check out my own photo I took from the same road a couple of weeks back:
Everyone who passes along Ortigas Extension knows the pain. Just like Precy, we’re hoping that the LGUs involved can do something about this.
Do you pass by Ortigas Extension every day? Let us know your thoughts!
I live in pasig near cainta. Wala nang pinipiling oras ang traffic. Sa ortigas extension, bawat oras ay traffic. 2 hours papunta lang ng ortigas. What more kung papunta ka ng makati. It takes 3 to 3 1/2 hours pag makati. Malas pa pag may banggaan sa C5. Pag umuulan, asahan mo walang traffic enforcer. Ang babaan at sakayan, laging pag akyat at pagbaba ng tulay. Bottle neck na nga pag akyat ng tulay ng rosario, dun pa nka tambay mga jeep at SUV. Nothing is being done really. Sana lagyan ng LRT along ortigas extension kadugtong ng MRT then going to the residential areas along ortigas extension to cainta and taytay.
restriciting one of only 2 close alternatives to ortigas avenue will cause more chaos as vehicles will naturally gravitate towards the main road. galing ng pasig mga leche
from the pasig PIO posted 20hrs ago. goodluck na lalo sa ortigas avenue
https://www.facebook.com/172838386104986/photos/a.406647616057394.94315.172838386104986/1046281222094027/?type=3&theater
beyond Ortigas Business District, the Pasig residential area is a very poorly planned area with an exponential residential growth and a land area that could not contain local employment, everybody just had to commute outward. Same goes with the periphery of Taytay-Cainta. Road widening (as if posible) or anyform of traffic remodeling would only compund to that error of poor planning.
What should be done is to desaturate uban employment. Economic centers should be decentralized from places such as as Ortigas CBD, Makati CBD, Cubao/Eastwood and Manila City (let’s just add that here since there’s a lot of people traversing along Pasig to Quiapo).
I hope Taytay and Cainta would open up heavy industrial and commercial centers as well so that there would be less people from these areas that would traverse Ortigas Extension. I think it would benifit not only the people of Taytay-Cainta (let’s add Pasig) in terms of less travel time (more family time) but also in terms of the economic growth of the municipalities that could casscade into better services such as better schools, better health-care and a better community
Its because someone thought it was a great idea to put a “sakayan” at the beginning and end of a bridge. When you get to the start, you’ll see the over abundance of jeeps/uvs/buses blocking the road, leaving only ONE of THREE lanes.
There’s a lot of complaints mostly from people who commutes from … say Cainta Junction to the direction of EDSA in the morning because of the huge time wasted due to heavy traffic. It does not move for hours and one religeous woman said … she has completed two rounds of citing the holy rosary meditating in closed eyes but when she opened up her sight … horror of all horrors (!!) … she was still on the same place, unmoved. This is the real situation … the place is a real bottle neck. My daughter who works at Shangrila would wake-up 4AM to be at work at half past eight. Wow … that waiting surely is one for the Guiness Book. No wonder that our country wastes too much money on fuel because of this dilemma. Is there any foreseable change coming?? Hello ….