Traffic Rant

Ok, so when you got called for a job interview at 2:30 in the afternoon and you're asked if you can get there and you know their Makati building is JUST 1.5km/1 mile away and you figure you'll get there within an hour, you say: "ok, see you by 3:30"

Big mistake. Makati's friday afternoons are known for their heavy traffic but nothing would have prepared me for this afternoon. For 100 meters, I spent one hour between Magallanes and Buendia, thinking that if curses can only kill, the people at DPWH/MMDA would have been dead, no, make that buried TWICE over by now.

Two things I discovered this afternoon:

First, as much as 40% of that crucial stretch of road known as the South Super Highway are unusable right now due to road repairs, making a gridlock that reached as far away as Nichols.

Second, the MMDA, in their infinite amount of wisdom, has decided to lift the truck ban for afternoons!

And I there I thought oil prices were prohibitive.