Too many PASAWAY motorcycle RIDERS on the street

[digitalron]

I wonder how undisciplined riders could be disciplined when law enforcers themselves lack discipline?




1 - No helmet

2 - No plate / for registration

3 - Blocking the pedestrian lane.


Check out the inset photo.

Not to mention the rider forced himself between my vehicle and the sidewalk a few moments before (I was stopped at the red light). I guess they think they can get away if they happened to scratch my side as they're cops...

[renzo_d10]

Yan nga ang nakakainis eh, pag naka-stop ka & about to cross an intersection before proceeding from stop alalay ka muna since baka may mga motor na biglang mag-cut sayo. Usually they're in " packs " pa ...

[Lucius]

Yan nga ang nakakainis eh, pag naka-stop ka & about to cross an intersection before proceeding from stop alalay ka muna since baka may mga motor na biglang mag-cut sayo. Usually they're in " packs " pa ...

Hahaha! Kanina sa Araneta Ave., ung maid kasama ko kanina sabi nya nung nasa stop light kami "sir tignan mo para silang kakarera"

Naka-line up kasi sila tapos nung nag-green sabay sabay harurot kala mo mga mamahaling motor!

Mga naka-loan naman sa banko..

[miked]

ang nagpatagal actually ng roadtrip namin to my home province was slowpoke motorcycles having their "moment sa daan" and overloaded tricycles.

imagine running speeds >60 kmh then all of a sudden you brake hard down to 20 kmh or even lower for about 15 minutes....

nagkukumpulan na lahat ng klase ng sasakyan sa likod mo dahil sa kabagalan ng trike at motor na rin. hindi naman makapagovertake agad dahil may oncoming traffic din. whew!!!

[redeemed]

I wonder how undisciplined riders could be disciplined when law enforcers themselves lack discipline?




1 - No helmet

2 - No plate / for registration

3 - Blocking the pedestrian lane.


Check out the inset photo.

Not to mention the rider forced himself between my vehicle and the sidewalk a few moments before (I was stopped at the red light). I guess they think they can get away if they happened to scratch my side as they're cops...

korek! sayang lang di ko nakunan ng picture, yesterday, full police uniform (type A ba tawag nila dun?), yung helmet nya nasa siko nakalagay. sabi ko kay esmi, pano naman susundin ng mga private riders yan, e kung mismong pulis pasaway.

ang nagpatagal actually ng roadtrip namin to my home province was slowpoke motorcycles having their "moment sa daan" and overloaded tricycles.

imagine running speeds >60 kmh then all of a sudden you brake hard down to 20 kmh or even lower for about 15 minutes....

nagkukumpulan na lahat ng klase ng sasakyan sa likod mo dahil sa kabagalan ng trike at motor na rin. hindi naman makapagovertake agad dahil may oncoming traffic din. whew!!!

sakto dito sa nabasa ko...

Symbolisms on the road
By Botchi Santos
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 19:53:00 03/15/2011

IF YOU look at the typical two-lane provincial highway, this best represents Philippine society. The road is narrow, typical of doing what’s good, right, legal and moral. But it’s also poorly surfaced making progress rather uncomfortable. Who said doing what’s right is comfortable and easy?


Forward progress is slow because there’s a very old, rickety and smoke-belching tricycle driven by a man legally blind and deaf, leading the pack, holding back faster moving vehicles. That old, smoke-belching tricycle represents the current government: slow, outdated and the smoke is killing everything in its wake slowly. It won’t step aside because it thinks it has the right to stay where it is.


Behind it is a jeepney full of fresh farm produce and/or livestock going to the market. It can’t overtake the jeepney because, unfortunately, it’s only moderately powerful and overloaded. Which will cause the produce to rot, or at the very least, smell like 2T engine oil. The lack of power and the overloaded jeepneys represent the lack of infrastructure and support that the government sorely needs to address to help the local economy. The jeepney itself represents the old antiquated methods that currently represent some form of systematic sourcing and distribution, all very ad hoc and case-to-case basis, lacking in order.


Behind the jeepney is a bus taking tourists to our beautiful lands. Unfortunately, due to the very slow pace and the smoke created by the jeepney ahead, as well as the smell of livestock in front of it, the tourists are getting put off and impatient by the slow pace. Again this shows lack of infrastructure development, the slow pace of positive change and ultimately will show that we’re not taking tourism, one of the few bright stars in the Philippine economy, seriously. These tourists also represent foreign direct investments and those who wield and control these vast sums of money. If they cannot go to where they need to be, they’ll get tired of waiting and just go somewhere else. The foul smell from both the 2T oil and the fresh produce indicates the general lack of trust they have with the Philippines as the foreigners expect to get extorted to kingdom come should they do business here.


Rice/palay and carabaos on the road represent the lack of order in our society. It’s pretty much the wild wild west as you get out of Metro Manila where the man with the guns and gold controls everything. Should you decide to just run over the palay, well there’s usually a huge rock placed in the middle of the palay laid out on the road to deter motorists from running over them. I don’t think I need to spell out what happens should you run over the huge rocks.
Bandits on the road represent the general lack of safety and security. What’s worse, bandits target the moneyed folk like those carrying fresh farm produce and livestock, or the tourist bus. Need I say more about tourists and buses? How about the various foreign nationals who get kidnapped regularly? Reading the inside pages of various newspapers, the story is the same; a foreign national was kidnapped and ransomed, released after paying millions upon millions of pesos. Once freed, he packs up, swears never to return to the Philippines and leaves his business and his employees empty-handed.


Last but not least is, driving your car, going your own way. Except that you can’t seem to go your own way because everyone ahead is moving very slowly. You want to make a decent living, live a good, morally upright life, but time’s wasting so you do the only thing seemingly available: overtake on the shoulder, which represents doing things illegally, bypassing the road ahead of you. Come on, admit it, you’ve done something vaguely illegal or even just questionable once in your life at least once, right?


If only the tricycle would move to the side and let faster moving vehicles speed along, then things would be far less complicated.

[miked]

Mga utak eh nasa siko na siguro....nagmutate na sila. amen!

[digitalron]

ang nagpatagal actually ng roadtrip namin to my home province was slowpoke motorcycles having their "moment sa daan" and overloaded tricycles.

imagine running speeds >60 kmh then all of a sudden you brake hard down to 20 kmh or even lower for about 15 minutes....

nagkukumpulan na lahat ng klase ng sasakyan sa likod mo dahil sa kabagalan ng trike at motor na rin. hindi naman makapagovertake agad dahil may oncoming traffic din. whew!!!

The worst, they won't let you overtake them by moving even slightly aside.

Also annoying is when I traverse the highway in Tarlac... there are portions there that are already dual lane going in a single direction. For some stupid reason, the tricycles always stay on the inner lane, clogging up the fast moving vehicles. On the rare occasions you can overtake on the right, many times, the tricycles block you, whether you give a friendly beep of the horn or you do it in stealth. What's with those morons? Too much crab mentality, blocking the progress of those faster than they are? And I thought people in the provinces are supposed to be polite and gracious. Damn them!

[emersonc]

Ligaya bound along A. Rodriguez. Traffic sa kabilang lane (Rosario bound). Left signal on kasi i'm turning left sa Save More. Since traffic, na block yung entrance papuntang Save More ng mga walang paki na jeep. Tapos may isang rider na nag counterflow. Since nakatigil ako with the intention to turn left, na-block ko sya. Tama kayo, sya pa ang galit. Dinuduro ako at nagsi-signal na umalis daw ako. Di ko na pinatulan. Nung nakita kong walang magbibigay na jeep para makapasok ako sa Save More, I decided na dumiretso na lang at mag-maniobra sa Shell station. Akala ko dun na nagtatapos. Sinundan pala ako ni Rider at nung pagbaba ko para kunin yung pinamili ni Misis sabay hirit sa akin na umayos daw ako magmaneho at wala daw ako respeto sa mga riders. Sabi ko brad, ikaw ang nag-illegal counterflow, ikaw mali ako ang tama. Tapos di ko na sya pinansin pero para syang inahing manok, putak ng putak hanggang sa umalis kami di pa din tumitigil. Ewan ko ba. Wala lang, nai-share ko lang sa inyo.

[digitalron]

Had an encounter with a rider of Wendy's at Boni, specifically Pinatubo street going to Edsa. It was morning rush hour and a lot of vehicles were coming up Pinatubo and exiting towards Edsa. Though Pinatubo is a tight street, it is one way Exiting to Edsa and two lanes of vehicles can pass. As I was moving up Pinatubo and about to reach Edsa, I saw this Wendy's rider at the corner, waiting to move forward. Then, probably because he couldn't wait any longer, he suddenly roared my way, trying to fit himself between my vehicle and the railings on my left in a counterflow on Pinatubo. Because space was tight, he couldn't move fast. I rolled down my window and when he was beside me, I pointed at him and said "nakakahiya ang kawalan mo ng disiplina! One way itong pinapasok mo, e dyan ka lang sa Wendy's nagtratrabaho, kaya alam mo ano tama at mali!"

The guy was apparently shocked that he remained where he was for a few seconds as I left him.

[shadow3616931]

Tama sila pa galit at ang tatapang pa, subagay matatapang talaga yan di nga takot mamatay eh...tsk, tsk

Hayaan nyo nalang mga yan mamamatay din agad mga yan kundi sila magbabago o kung patuloy nila iisipin na counterflowing motorcycle is legal and those other idiotic driving habits. Iwasan nyo nalang kasi idadamay pa tayo nila.