The information about the Traffic Jam Tax for malls proposed by Rep. Winston Castelo should be looked into properly by concerned sectors, experts, in the government as well as in the private and business that has something to say about the proposed additional tax burden to people and businesses.
Due to the problem is traffic, and malls in the vicinities and locations were all along EDSA, it cannot be a worthy reasoning to convert the traffic problem into a tax matter.
Eversince, EDSA has not changed and developed over the years to accommodate and sustain the volume of vehicles flowing along, and the transformations given along time did not alleviate to solve the traffic woes given it.
The progress of the country is indicative of the dynamism of people and roads in Metro Manila that cars and traffic jams are proof that we are improving in economy. In the course of time, the government should have before hand caused to foresee the future in traffic along EDSA and other major thoroughfares of the country, that it needs continuous studies and research on the growth of our cities and population. We have experts in these fields, and they should have been consulted and commissioned to produce those researches and plannings for use of the government.
In short, the government failed to conduct and assist the growing needs of more roads over time, and the lackadaisical attitude of our public servants missed the targets for the growing city of Metro Manila.
The proposed Tax Jam Tax is incoherent with the objectives of the nation for a sustainable growth of our economy, and should not restrict people of their activities, dynamics, and transactions they want to conduct daily that converts to a faster and growing economy of the country. What is needed is an elaborate and technical skills on the part of the government sector to assist this growth of people and the population instead of preventing their dynamism through imposing limitations which is contrary to our aims of speedy growth, instead it must be pro active with what is needed and demanded by that growth.
More infrastructure is needed, and more innovative means to create accommodate the demand of roads, its arteries, should be increased and multiplied instead of preventing and subtracting from these growth.
Limiting mall hours, preventing them to freely conduct with their business activity, and commerce by the people is not a productive response of the part of the government. In contrary, it must be encouraging and give more access to the potentials it need to spur the economy.
The government on its part should start more infrastructure, like underground trains, viaducts, skyways, light trains, flyovers, point to point road destinations to make room for the demand of activity and transactions of people.
The proper state of mind of the government should be positive and outward looking for solution instead of inward and backward approach to ease traffic jams.
We should employ the minds of Engineers and Architects to look into the problem and prevent lawyers of giving comments and suggestions for it due the matter is all about structures and fluidity of highways, roads, and time relevant analysis, motion studies which lawyers do not fit into.
Extreme Engineering is needed in the country, where its activation was long over delayed caused by the funding was not properly given due attention,
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