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Tuesday, June 10, 2003
Editorial: The traffic code
THE city mayor has spoken. She is against any move to amend the traffic code.
This stand of the mayor should be respected by the councilors who still want to please prospective voters by trying to amend the code anew.
We must remember that the traffic code approved by the city councilors last December was the product of years of testing, experiments, deliberation and a compilation of existing traffic rules of old and recent times. It took the councilors quite some time to sort out the good, the bad and the ugly from the many proposed provisions for the code.
Finally, after passing through several public hearings and modifications, the code was ready, approved by the city council and affirmed by the city mayor.
But lo, less than four months after enactments, here comes some drivers and operators of public utility jeepneys who wanted to return to their old parking area at the public market. They did not raise their voices while the deliberations on the code were going on. Neither did they conduct rallies when the traffic code was finalized and approved by the city councilors.
These recalcitrant drivers and operators did not burn effigies when the mayor signed the traffic code at city hall.
And now, here they come crying for an amendment. And the councilors, bless them all, wanted to jump up the sky in an effort to please them all.
We must remember that no one can please everybody all the time. We can please some and displease a few. So if our lawmakers should try to please one sector of society to the detriment of the other sectors who stand to profit from law and order in the city, it is time we mark these councilors and campaign for zero votes in their names.
The city should learn to enforce the laws its lawmakers enact.
We cannot amend all the laws in town because somebody cried and want it done.
(June 10, 2003 issue)
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