IBAGSAK SI PNOY DAHIL SA MMDA BUS TERMINAL PLAN

The problem with this administration, they don't seem to care whenever they're "bosses", meaning the "Filipino people" cry out of frustration.

I've been writing against this purported MMDA bus terminal plan with gusto precisely because I believe the plan is anti-poor and patently stupid.

Studies already show that 2.5 million commuters will be affected if this plan is implemented, but because our leaders right now act like conos denied of their candies, the MMDA thru its capricious Chairman Francis Tolentino still insists on pushing through with this stupid plan.

Look at what happened today? Thousands upon thousands of poor commuters got stranded today all because of this idiotic plan by Tolentino. I know Tolentino is just following orders from his true "boss", President Aquino.

It seems that whenever there is a plan that will directly affect the lives of poor Pinoys, that would make Pinoys poorer and their sufferings more intolerable, this administration proceeds without batting an eyelash.

Of course, only those members of the middle class who drive their own cars, will benefit from all of these. Yet, the hapless commuters!

How many thousands lost their day's pay today due to being late? How many students got stuck in traffic? How many people lost an opportunity to land a job today? How many lost income because of the humongous traffic caused by this stupid, and idiotic plan?

Of course, none of these officials of ours, even want to consider these peoples' welfare, because they are all nameless and Status-less!!

Nagiging pahirap na sa mamamayan itong pamahalaan na ito.

Siguro panahon na para ipanawagan ang kanyang pagbagsak. Abangan!!

MMDA, anti-mamamayan, anti-poor!

MMDA, sinong kikita dyan sa central bus terminal plan?

MMDA, ibagsak!!!!

EXPOSE! MMDA TO COLLECT 1.8 BILLION PESOS AS TERMINAL FEE FOR PROVL BUSES. WHO BENEFITS FROM OUR TRAFFIC MISERY?

The bus terminal relocation plan of the MMDA may look innocent and note-worthy. Behind the facade however, is a dastardly plan by the agency and several mall owners to squeeze more money from commuters and legitimate tax payers.

MMDA chair Francis Tolentino should be forthright with us and tell us---who will benefit more from this scheme of theirs---the commuters or mall owners? Government is spending close to 1.3 billion pesos for these terminals. These terminals, mind you, are part of a bigger shopping mall complex run by the Sys of SM, the Gokongweis of Robinson's Mall, and of course, the Gotianuns of Filinvest, not to mention, the owners of Uniwide Sales whose jurassic shopping mall along Coastal Road is being converted into a bus terminal for commuters from Cavite.

Tolentino should reveal how much money did they fork out to build these terminals? Where did all those monies go? 

MMDA and the mall owners plan to get 350 pesos per bus per parking. That's 2.450 million pesos per hour's worth of fees to be collected, if all 7,000 provincial buses go to these terminals. Since these buses only use these terminals at least twice, MMDA and terminal owners will earn around 5 million pesos per day.

In a month's time, 150 million pesos worth of fees. In a year's time, 1.8 billion pesos will be collected from bus companies by the MMDA and mall developers.

These fees will definitely be shouldered by the commuters as a pass-on. Hence, expect a bus fare hike as soon as the MMDA implements this bus terminal relocation plan.

Who benefits? It will be the mall owners who will reap the benefits because they will not just earn from a terrific surge of foot traffic into their malls, they will also be compensated from the fees. 

And to think that only 6% of all vehicular traffic that uses EDSA are provincial buses. 

For the sake of lowering EDSA traffic by 6%, we, the commuters, will be suffering from higher bus fares caused by these terminal fees.