One only needs to look at the Department of
Transportation and Communications (DOTC), as well as its line agencies, to see
everything that is wrong with the outgoing administration. The
ill-maintained LRT and MRT trains and railway systems have figured in so many
accidents and near-mishaps that people are now resigned to the fact that they
are putting their lives at risk every time they ride the commuter trains.
Last Saturday, an LRT train
rear-ended another, while an MRT coach crashed into a concrete barrier in
Pasay City not too long ago, spilling onto EDSA, hitting a couple of motor
vehicles and causing injuries among its passengers. LRT and MRT officials are
almost always quick to pin the blame on the train operators, while glossing
over the shoddy maintenance of the railway systems.
Over at the Land Transportation
Office (LTO), no less than a relative of President Aquino saw red when he
failed to get the plastic card of his driver’s license after wasting nearly a
day at that agency on long queues. With LTO ditching its private IT
partner, one now needs to spend one whole day to get a temporary driver’s
license, and to bear waiting for weeks to get the ID card.
Still at the LTO,
its top official had the gall to warn owners of new cars that they would be
apprehended under a no-plate, no-travel policy past the seven-day grace period
from the time the dealer delivered the vehicles to them. The LTO official
conveniently forgot that many new vehicles have been without plates for months
now because LTO and its license plates provider have miserably failed to
deliver to the public the new plates.
I mean, why is he punishing the
public for the resulting lack of plates arising from his incompetence? -end-
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