Close Malls 1x a Week to alleviate traffic?

[yebo]

speaking of patay, trapik din pag nov 1. aba dapat ipagbawal na ang nov 1! lalo na pag natapat sa monday!

utak bureaucrat naman talaga oo!

[niky]

Closing the malls twice a week will effectively put one-fourth to one-third of all mall employees (all contractual... shifting) out of work. All for what? Malls open at 10-11 am, AFTER rush hour, and close after 9pm... again... AFTER rush hour.

In other words, you've put thousands of people out of work and have reduced commuter load in the 7-9 am rush hour by... 0.5% (for those skeleton crews of janitors and security that open the malls before store employees can come in). Good job!

Sige... tell mall owners they have to hire three shifts of people when they only need two. Tell them to share the profit that way. And while you're at it... hire three maids for your house, even if one won't come to work at all.

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All these volume reduction schemes do is shuffle people around. What we need is to 1. Get rid of those people, and 2. Fix our transport system so it can cope with those left behind.

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What's necessary is proper traffic management and centralized PUB/PUV routing and trip management. Some bus companies practice this within their fleets to prevent overlap... but this should really be done system-wide, to more evenly space out buses on the same line and to decongest thoroughfares.

Further measures can include centralized planning of opening and closing times of businesses. Make it so that businesses sitting beside each other have staggered opening and closing times. Businesses already do this on their own. But if all the businesses and schools in an area work together, they can more effectively distribute the commuter load.

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Long term, we need to give tax and economic incentives to people and businesses to leave the city. Otherwise, they're all going to want to live within five kilometers of Makati and Quezon City. Which means more and more of our 100 million people will be concentrated in a smaller and smaller space.

[yebo]

Closing schools hamper development but closing malls for a day in a week??

ows? bakit pag sem break at summer wala naman pasok? isara na yan!

[Bin Diesel]

Bawal dapat mall sa metropolis dalhin lahat yan sa mga liblib na lugar para walang trapik.

[1D4LV]

i think it is not feasible.... it will kill the economy, and it will kill the simple pleasures of the filipinos.
proper and effective management is the best.

[alakdan168]

Banks, the backbone of the economy, can operate for only 5 days a week (except for ATMs) without detrimental effect on the economy, ditto for the Philippine Stock Exchange.

[testament11]

Dear TS, madami na tayong mga nasa gubyerno na baluktot ang isip at gumawa ng idea. Wag mo nang dagdagan pa. Ang suggestion mo eh isang suntok sa buwan.

Look, obvious na obvious naman na kasi ang problema sa traffic, bakit ba ayaw nilang bigyan ng solution yan? Bakit kung ano-ano pang paikot-ikot na idea ang binabato nila instead of attacking the problem directly? !*#%^ naman, baka naman may kick-back kayo sa problema?

[chua_riwap]

TS for LTFRB or MMDA chairman.......

[cardict]

yan! yan pa ang isa! bakit hindi pwedeng piliin ang araw kung kelan mamamatay? anong ginagawa ng mga congressman, bakit walang batas yan?! bawal mamatay pag monday!

utak bureaucrat naman talaga oo!

Yun na nga eh,tulad nung isang congressman na nag baril sa kongreso,siniguro nyang di sya mamatay,kung sa sentido ,alam nya the end is near,so he did it his ('MY WAY')

[Aoshinomori]

It's like saying na i-ban ang mga taong mabuhay after 60 (or is it 65?), or huwag muna kumain 1 day a week. Number coding is ridiculous already.