Overcrowded Transport System

The Metro Manila Public Utility Buses and Railways such as the MRT and LRT is one of the many public transport systems that disregard passenger comfort and safety. If you are one of hundreds of thousands of commuters with health problems and have difficulty standing for extended periods, you are likely to suffer more during work rush hours. Overcrowding is mainly a problem that can poised safety concerns and dangers of being trapped inside when panic or stampede occurred among the passengers.

There ought to be motor vehicle safety standard regulations that require bus operators to provide passengers protection and comfort. The vehicle manufacturers also needs to determine the maximum allowable seating capacity of a bus and at all times make a permanent posting of the said info inside the buses before the bus can be purchase.

Certain rules that must be followed when seating passengers, such as all passengers must be properly seated, no passenger, nor can their belongings project beyond a seat into the aisle. Passenger belongings that are not considered hand carried items can be placed on bus compartments. No overcrowding should be permitted even when a commuter insists. If there is a law the Department of Transportation and Communication needs to revisit and review otherwise legislator should start drafting a law.

Politically Incorrect

Marcos regime dated back to the martial law era of the 1970 that spans from 20 year rule saw the suppression of the most fundamental basic freedom rights and is a very painful touch to our history. Let us not forget that during those periods of oppression our country was in the brink of economic and political chaos while his family, political allies, and close associates enjoy enormous privileges of the elite that have access to government resources while our countrymen is on the suffering ends.

For the record there is no validity that Marcos becomes a war hero during the Japanese occupation in the 1940s. Assuming that he is a war hero and history was altered, either he died during the course of war or before his authoritarian rule, it is correct to give him the honor of hero’s burial. On the contrast his being war hero that he long sought was a reversal of his own tyranny.

Ferdinand Marcos a man of great intellect chose the path of tyrant than a path to serve the greater good. A hero cannot be made a tyrant nor can a tyrant be made to a hero. Put this simply a hero and tyrant are not compatible. Therefore Marcos is not a hero. To bury him in the “Libingan ng mga Bayani” is to bequeath a tyrant with the highest honor and tantamount to dispersed in history those true heroes who fought and died true to our country. To make Marcos a Hero is politically incorrect. A hero is someone that feels human, sacrifice, and a victim; should not be confused with tyrant. In truth Marcos neither feels human, did not sacrifice, nor the victim.