This was supposed to be done like decades ago and yet they didnt do anything. In 2014, the Department of Transportation and Communications is among the top 10 agencies with the highest budget. The P48.8 B 2014 DOTC budget is already 31.6 percent more than the 2013 DOTC budget. Now the DOTC is requesting for a P6.6 B taxpayer support for the MRT as part of its P52.9 budget for 2015. The amount is said to be for the operation, maintenance and subsidy for the 13-station, 17-kilometer MRT 3 line. We, the people, not only assure the MRT its profits, we are also now taking on its maintenance expenses. The fact that hundreds of MRT commuters who are ordinary employees, workers and students still line up at the train stations even after the incident shows that metro commuters have little choice of the means in which they will arrive to their workplaces and destinations. This fact escapes the Aquino government who assures the public yet does nothing to improve the mass transport system. Providing basic utilities and other social services like education, health, transportation and making them cheap, accessible and safe to all defines good governance. The government may dismiss the MRT accident as a mere technical issue or human error, but to the Filipinos who face the risk and difficulties of our transport system and are already burdened with economic hardships daily, continuing the situation of a private owned, government guaranteed MRT should be junked.
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:41:57 +0000
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