Simpleng Pinoy lang si Jarold

I usually trail down the streets of Laray to my place in Tanke, Talisay City as it has became a part of my daily routine. I've learned from numerous exercise advice that a 15 minute brisk walking daily is a great exercise.
Walking down that street would require me to cross the national highway SRP (South Road Project) where all types of private vehicles including trucks of disparate sizes pass.

Last tuesday night, as I was near to crossing the crossroads of the highway going to my place, a titanic truck abruptly crossed the street at the speed of light even when they yellow light already gave the warning. Now this scene shouldn't be new to us Filipinos since we know that we are infamously known to be great traffic violators. However, I've never seen any vehicle ran the red light at a turbulent speed as fast as a light. And it made me recall the ghastly pictures of a smashed body of a motorcycle driver that I had received from my friend through an e-mail way back. The man's body was literally dispersed in the street.

Having described my experience, I am calling the attention of Talisay City and Cebu City government to come up with effective measures regarding this horrifying issue. We may not successfully efface all these incredulously evil truck drivers; but I'm extremely positive there is something that can be done. It's a crossroad for crying out loud! Hundreds of people cross there daily. Thus, we shouldn't wait for a someone's demise to be an eye-opener before action will be taken. And this includes but not limits possible vehicular accidents.

Last night, as I reached the crossroads of Osmeña Boulevard adn the National Highway, after trailing down from Crown Regency Hotel, I saw a few number of people crossing the busy street even when the DO NOT WALK signal was imminently conspicuous and the vehicles were brooming left and right.

I couldn't help but think about the grave situation of our country. Just watching that scene made me realize that the root cause of the Philippine's problems is our stubborness -as well as our refusal to exercise self-discipline

Everyday as I walk along the road of Colon, I see pedestrian walking on the green light. And if there are any City Traffice Office Management (CITOM) officers dispersed on the streets, I never fail to see jaywalking violators being fined or worse altercating with the officers. I must admit, I used to be a violator of the rule and was fined twice. But I never let that happen again. Apart from the embarassment and waste of money, violation of the law strongly attracts accident and traffic problems.

I understand that many of us are either on a jiffy or simply too tired to stand in front of the rushing vehicles and wait for the WALK signal. However, traffic rules are there for a reason. If we only follow these traffic rules faithfully, there would be lesser traffic congestion, lesser street accidents, lesser traffic enforcers to be paid for and other people wouldn't have the guts to violate the rule if they see us exercising the discipline ourselves.

LIke the golden rule says Do not do unto others what you dont want others do to you. Similarly, what you don't do, others wouldn't do, too. Therefore, discipline must start from one's self not from others. Do one good thing faithfully and others will follow.


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