Official position of MRO on the MC lanes: ONE VOICE - ONE STAND!
1. We are in favor of the MC Lane only if the infrastructure supports it and the conditions are ideal (Currently, IT IS NOT!)
2. We ask that they focus first on the current issues like the lack of control over PUV's who stop, block, weave and race though the roads without being apprehended
3. To stop the indiscriminate issuance of R1 licenses to unqualified riders
4. To strictly enforce the existing laws and not add new ones that are half baked to say the least
5. To remove all unscrupulous enforcement personnel who cannot do their jobs properly
6. To remove unequal treatment by enforcement on mc riders while other vehicles are being ignored
7. To allow us to be part of any plan or legislative projects for motorcycles
8. To bring back fair and honest treatment of all road users
9. To stop branding all riders as bad, irresponsible and criminals
10. To stop making MC riders money machines on the road
Please take note of number 1: We like the idea... What we don't like is the way it is implemented and the way they designed it without TRULY considering our position and safety. They say it's for our own good, but in reality, they are dictating rules that violate other provisions of the law... They say it's because of the bad apples on the road, but in reality, every class of vehicle has bad apples and just because there are bad riders and drivers does not give them the right to treat everybody else the same... That is undue profiling and that is discrimination...
The ends does not justify the means... One Voice, One Stand!!!
Monday, January 16, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
You want a long term solution? Here's a suggestion...
Smart people with smart answers... I love the way the MC LANE fanboys call their detractors stupid... Hehehe...
Anyway, here is a suggestion...
In one day, I was able to amass more than 500 pictures of violations perpetrated by buses and jeeps on Commonwealth...
That did not even take me more than 3 hours to take them...
Pictures will clearly show plate numbers how they violated the law...
Lets say each violation is worth 300 pesos...
That is 150,000 per day in tickets...
These are all tied up to the vehicle records and each week, they are compiled and sent to the operators... The operators then have a number of days to indicate the drivers info (License no.) and return it back to the MMDA... MMDA then submits the list to LTO with the corresponding photograph stating the bus used, plate number, and license number of the driver during that time... Fees are collected during license renewal... That is step one...
If in case a driver is caught by camera multiple times, his license will be suspended or confiscated with the amount still tied up to his name...
For the operators failure to submit the list of drivers who were caught operating their franchise at the time of the picture was taken, they also suffer a penalty up to franchise suspension for non compliance... This is step two...
150,000 a day for 3 hours in one location is worth 1.5M in 10 locations... 1.5M a day = 45,000,000 in a month for just 10 locations... How many locations are there?
How to make this more effective? HD CCTV cameras... A centralized ops center... Validation and verification of each violation caught is QA'd for fairness... Each violation is tagged with a picture/screenshot for transparency... Violators are protected by a double jeopardy system that allows only one entry at a given time or place... That way, no two ops personnel can tag one driver twice at a given time...
This will definitely create a cloud of discipline over the drivers and would solve the issue of capturing each and every single violation in a system that is tagged, secured and objective rather than subjective...
Each picture must contain the following to be validated:
1. Picture of scenario showing violation
2. Picture of plate number of vehicle (Which is easy now since the body numbers are painted all over the vehicles)
3. Picture showing the face of the driver (HD Cameras are more than capable of doing this)
The drivers can even protest an apprehension if it was not them in the picture... This means the operators made a mistake of putting their license numbers at the time of the incident and incurs a penalty for unscrupulous reporting... This is step three...
This system gives both drivers and operators accountability...
And with that, operators will now instill discipline and responsible driving with their people because each time their bus gets caught, they suffer points which amounts to the suspension of a franchise or a corresponding penalty for not being able to control their people... This is step four...
This system is just half of what it is capable of... Then you can work on the private vehicles... Different set of procedures for them since they are not operators except for company owned vehicles...
Each operator has log book of who is driving their vehicles at a given time and date... So filling the blanks is easy...
And in today's day and age, every business has access to email... If not, then they are sent by snail mail...
Although collections are not immediate, they can easily make that money whenever a driver renews his license...
Then random apprehensions are made on the road with the use of an electronic/wireless gadget that issues tickets to licenses and simultaneously connects to the main server to save them... This is in relation to the ops center so that they don't get tagged with two violations at a given time... Then if there are pending violations for the driver caught by street level enforcers, then their licenses gets confiscated on the spot... When this happens, the vehicle is towed and the operator fined for allowing a delinquent driver to operate their bus or jeep... This is step five...
In one year, this will instill massive change and discipline over all drivers on the streets...
If they dont want it, then the solution is simply...
GAWIN NILA ANG TRABAHO NILA NG MAAYOS AT HULIHIN NILA LAHAT NG VIOLATORS NA MAKIKITA NILA IMBIS NA NAMIMILI SILA NG ORAS AT NG HUHULIHIN NILA...
This is my suggestion...
Rather that spending money on the lane, then intensify operations with the use of technology, imagery and proper process building... Make use of the billions being spent on IT Development which goes no where...
Then, the BILLION PESO skyway over EDSA is no longer needed since the streets will now become more free flowing and the road users more disciplined thus creating a better driving/riding experience for all...
Kaya sa ibang bansa, hindi kailangan masyado ang napakaraming enforcer... Isang traffic cop lang per intersection ok na kasi me support sya ng CCTV... Tapos, 24 hour pa ang operation... Kahit disoras na ng gabi, me nahuhuli pa din... The beauty of night vision CCTV...
All this without creating new laws or implementing new, half baked ideas, impartial and unequal treatment on the street level, and removing all incompetent and corrupt enforcers on the streets...
Ang nangyayari kasi, employ sila ng employ ng mga taong hindi naman kayang gawin ng tama trabaho nila tapos hindi sila nasisita o nabibigyan ng kauukulang diciplinary action...
On the road users side naman, mawawala na ang lagay... Mawawala na ang dahilan, pakiusap o takas... Lahat kasi objective na... Hindi na subjective...
Lahat titino at aayos na ng pag mamaneho sa kalsada...
Sasabihin nilang walang budget?!? Puro nga sila panukala ng kung ano ano tapos sabay implementation... Walang budget?!?
Edi gawin nilang concession agreement with the group who will build the system... Habang kumakalap sila ng fines during the collection, binabayaran ila unti unti yung system at mga tao... Wala pang nilabas na budget...
Now, even without the system in place, hindi naman talaga kailangan ang MC lane kung gagawin lang nila ang trabaho nila ng maayos... Papatuparin ang batas na nakasulat na mula noon at pag iibayuhin nila ang disiplina at tamang aksyon laban sa mga violators...
The system only makes the work a lot faster, simple and effective...
ROI will be made in a matter of two to four years depending on the cost of the system and the problem of undisciplined, and reckless drivers will be solved at the same time...
What say you?!?
I can go on and on with this idea and present this against the MC lane factor that instills segregation, discrimination, unequal treatment from the law and promotes safer roads by the cause and effect that this process can do...
Hindi yung band aid solution na inaabuso lang ng sarili nilang tao at ng mga miron na akala mo kung sinong mga experto sa larangan ng pag momotor... You dont just have to be a rider to understand it... You also need to be a driver... That way, you see it both ways... Over and under... All bases covered...
Bakit hindi nila ito papaboran, Sad to say, in the long run kasi, pag disiplinado na ang tao at mahigpit na ang patakaran, liliit na ang kita nila in the future...
But logically, what better system can you think of than this? MC lane to pass the burden to the road users?!? SCAPEGOAT SYSTEM to run away from their incapacity to do the job right...
PILIPINAS, GUSTO NA KITANG IWANAN...
Pero di ko kayang pabayaan ang mga taong nag kukumahog na mag trabaho upang buhayin ang kanilang mga pamilya sa ganitong systema na niloloko, nililinlang, inaabuso, pineperahan, inaagrabyado at hindi patas na pagtrato sa kanila, sa atin at sa ibang kababayan natin...
Nakakalunkot, pero sino ba ang mag tatanggol sa mga tao kundi tayo rin...
Supporta nyo ang kailangan para maisulong natin ang tamang systema na pag papatupad ng existing na batas, pagiging strikto sa disiplina at pag bibigay ng lisensya at pag bibigay aral sa lahat ng gumagamit ng kalsada...
Tulad sa pag asa na binibigay nyo sa amin at sa MAP/MRO, sana maka asa din kami sa supporta ninyo...
Time to Remember, Time to Ride tayo ulit para sa tama, maayos, ligtas at patas na pag papatupad ng batas sa lansangan!!!
Anyway, here is a suggestion...
In one day, I was able to amass more than 500 pictures of violations perpetrated by buses and jeeps on Commonwealth...
That did not even take me more than 3 hours to take them...
Pictures will clearly show plate numbers how they violated the law...
Lets say each violation is worth 300 pesos...
That is 150,000 per day in tickets...
These are all tied up to the vehicle records and each week, they are compiled and sent to the operators... The operators then have a number of days to indicate the drivers info (License no.) and return it back to the MMDA... MMDA then submits the list to LTO with the corresponding photograph stating the bus used, plate number, and license number of the driver during that time... Fees are collected during license renewal... That is step one...
If in case a driver is caught by camera multiple times, his license will be suspended or confiscated with the amount still tied up to his name...
For the operators failure to submit the list of drivers who were caught operating their franchise at the time of the picture was taken, they also suffer a penalty up to franchise suspension for non compliance... This is step two...
150,000 a day for 3 hours in one location is worth 1.5M in 10 locations... 1.5M a day = 45,000,000 in a month for just 10 locations... How many locations are there?
How to make this more effective? HD CCTV cameras... A centralized ops center... Validation and verification of each violation caught is QA'd for fairness... Each violation is tagged with a picture/screenshot for transparency... Violators are protected by a double jeopardy system that allows only one entry at a given time or place... That way, no two ops personnel can tag one driver twice at a given time...
This will definitely create a cloud of discipline over the drivers and would solve the issue of capturing each and every single violation in a system that is tagged, secured and objective rather than subjective...
Each picture must contain the following to be validated:
1. Picture of scenario showing violation
2. Picture of plate number of vehicle (Which is easy now since the body numbers are painted all over the vehicles)
3. Picture showing the face of the driver (HD Cameras are more than capable of doing this)
The drivers can even protest an apprehension if it was not them in the picture... This means the operators made a mistake of putting their license numbers at the time of the incident and incurs a penalty for unscrupulous reporting... This is step three...
This system gives both drivers and operators accountability...
And with that, operators will now instill discipline and responsible driving with their people because each time their bus gets caught, they suffer points which amounts to the suspension of a franchise or a corresponding penalty for not being able to control their people... This is step four...
This system is just half of what it is capable of... Then you can work on the private vehicles... Different set of procedures for them since they are not operators except for company owned vehicles...
Each operator has log book of who is driving their vehicles at a given time and date... So filling the blanks is easy...
And in today's day and age, every business has access to email... If not, then they are sent by snail mail...
Although collections are not immediate, they can easily make that money whenever a driver renews his license...
Then random apprehensions are made on the road with the use of an electronic/wireless gadget that issues tickets to licenses and simultaneously connects to the main server to save them... This is in relation to the ops center so that they don't get tagged with two violations at a given time... Then if there are pending violations for the driver caught by street level enforcers, then their licenses gets confiscated on the spot... When this happens, the vehicle is towed and the operator fined for allowing a delinquent driver to operate their bus or jeep... This is step five...
In one year, this will instill massive change and discipline over all drivers on the streets...
If they dont want it, then the solution is simply...
GAWIN NILA ANG TRABAHO NILA NG MAAYOS AT HULIHIN NILA LAHAT NG VIOLATORS NA MAKIKITA NILA IMBIS NA NAMIMILI SILA NG ORAS AT NG HUHULIHIN NILA...
This is my suggestion...
Rather that spending money on the lane, then intensify operations with the use of technology, imagery and proper process building... Make use of the billions being spent on IT Development which goes no where...
Then, the BILLION PESO skyway over EDSA is no longer needed since the streets will now become more free flowing and the road users more disciplined thus creating a better driving/riding experience for all...
Kaya sa ibang bansa, hindi kailangan masyado ang napakaraming enforcer... Isang traffic cop lang per intersection ok na kasi me support sya ng CCTV... Tapos, 24 hour pa ang operation... Kahit disoras na ng gabi, me nahuhuli pa din... The beauty of night vision CCTV...
All this without creating new laws or implementing new, half baked ideas, impartial and unequal treatment on the street level, and removing all incompetent and corrupt enforcers on the streets...
Ang nangyayari kasi, employ sila ng employ ng mga taong hindi naman kayang gawin ng tama trabaho nila tapos hindi sila nasisita o nabibigyan ng kauukulang diciplinary action...
On the road users side naman, mawawala na ang lagay... Mawawala na ang dahilan, pakiusap o takas... Lahat kasi objective na... Hindi na subjective...
Lahat titino at aayos na ng pag mamaneho sa kalsada...
Sasabihin nilang walang budget?!? Puro nga sila panukala ng kung ano ano tapos sabay implementation... Walang budget?!?
Edi gawin nilang concession agreement with the group who will build the system... Habang kumakalap sila ng fines during the collection, binabayaran ila unti unti yung system at mga tao... Wala pang nilabas na budget...
Now, even without the system in place, hindi naman talaga kailangan ang MC lane kung gagawin lang nila ang trabaho nila ng maayos... Papatuparin ang batas na nakasulat na mula noon at pag iibayuhin nila ang disiplina at tamang aksyon laban sa mga violators...
The system only makes the work a lot faster, simple and effective...
ROI will be made in a matter of two to four years depending on the cost of the system and the problem of undisciplined, and reckless drivers will be solved at the same time...
What say you?!?
I can go on and on with this idea and present this against the MC lane factor that instills segregation, discrimination, unequal treatment from the law and promotes safer roads by the cause and effect that this process can do...
Hindi yung band aid solution na inaabuso lang ng sarili nilang tao at ng mga miron na akala mo kung sinong mga experto sa larangan ng pag momotor... You dont just have to be a rider to understand it... You also need to be a driver... That way, you see it both ways... Over and under... All bases covered...
Bakit hindi nila ito papaboran, Sad to say, in the long run kasi, pag disiplinado na ang tao at mahigpit na ang patakaran, liliit na ang kita nila in the future...
But logically, what better system can you think of than this? MC lane to pass the burden to the road users?!? SCAPEGOAT SYSTEM to run away from their incapacity to do the job right...
PILIPINAS, GUSTO NA KITANG IWANAN...
Pero di ko kayang pabayaan ang mga taong nag kukumahog na mag trabaho upang buhayin ang kanilang mga pamilya sa ganitong systema na niloloko, nililinlang, inaabuso, pineperahan, inaagrabyado at hindi patas na pagtrato sa kanila, sa atin at sa ibang kababayan natin...
Nakakalunkot, pero sino ba ang mag tatanggol sa mga tao kundi tayo rin...
Supporta nyo ang kailangan para maisulong natin ang tamang systema na pag papatupad ng existing na batas, pagiging strikto sa disiplina at pag bibigay ng lisensya at pag bibigay aral sa lahat ng gumagamit ng kalsada...
Tulad sa pag asa na binibigay nyo sa amin at sa MAP/MRO, sana maka asa din kami sa supporta ninyo...
Time to Remember, Time to Ride tayo ulit para sa tama, maayos, ligtas at patas na pag papatupad ng batas sa lansangan!!!
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
EDSA MC Lane... The battle for our rights, safety and equality has a new location...
TV5 News just came and have sought for our reaction on the recent move to implement the MC lane on EDSA...
As far as we are concerned, we are still in the same position as before...
Just in case they cut the interview short and all that I have said does not come into the interview once they broadcast it, I have mentioned the following:
1. The infrastructure is not ready
2. The MC lane should not be called the MC lane because everybody else is allowed to use that lane
3. Lack of enforcement for the existing laws is what's keeping the problems rampant
4. Lack of proper screening and stricter issuance of licenses allows more and more undisciplined road users on the streets and behind the wheel of a vehicle
5. Creation of new laws isn't the solution, stricter enforcement of the existing ones will put everybody in place
6. Just like anything implemented, once it has taken it's time in the limelight, it is easily forgotten and put aside
7. The intention is not the issue being questioned in fact, we applaud it... It is the part where basic rights, the safety act and the equal treatment that is being ignored for a band aid solution is what bothers us
8. We are clearly being segregated and discriminated by the mere fact that they are willing to sacrifice the provisions of the law that provide fair and equal treatment to all
9. It may have lessened the accidents/incidents involving motorcycles on the areas where the MC lane exist, but has it reduced the over all number or accidents/incidents everywhere else included?
10. They said that their implementing guide was the ordinances issued by QC and Pasay which led to the MC lane in those areas... Does this mean that Makati, Mandaluyong, QC have issued new ordinances for EDSA?
11. Where is the IRR for the MC Lane?
12. Has any document been published?
13. Has all efforts to disseminate information to all motorists been done?
14. The MC lane is not going to solve traffic, accidents and crime... Your only pushing it somewhere else
15. Motorcycles help in reducing congestion on the road by it's ability to filter through traffic... Teaching the riders and regulating the way filtering is done will help reduce incidents involving motorcycles... The MC lane will only make EDSA more congested since you are telling the smaller bikes to line up and to be part of the traffic
16. The lack of control and enforcement on PUV's clearly shows that they are being ignored... Why?!?
The news crew from TV5 has shared images with me and it is already clear that the MC lane in EDSA is on the second lane from the center island... In-between the private lanes...
Although separated from the PUV's, we are still being crossed by other vehicles from the left, right and back... As far as the chairman is concerned, the MC lane is and will not be exclusive to MC's.... Not even semi-exclusive... Then why is it called the MC lane?
Mr. Chairman, if you can easily deploy a hundred men to watch over the Bourne Legacy shooting, why can't you deploy your men to enforce the laws of the streets instead of creating or implementing new ones that clearly ignore, violate and disregards the rights, safety and equal treatment of the people you swore to serve?!?
As far as we are concerned, we are still in the same position as before...
Just in case they cut the interview short and all that I have said does not come into the interview once they broadcast it, I have mentioned the following:
1. The infrastructure is not ready
2. The MC lane should not be called the MC lane because everybody else is allowed to use that lane
3. Lack of enforcement for the existing laws is what's keeping the problems rampant
4. Lack of proper screening and stricter issuance of licenses allows more and more undisciplined road users on the streets and behind the wheel of a vehicle
5. Creation of new laws isn't the solution, stricter enforcement of the existing ones will put everybody in place
6. Just like anything implemented, once it has taken it's time in the limelight, it is easily forgotten and put aside
7. The intention is not the issue being questioned in fact, we applaud it... It is the part where basic rights, the safety act and the equal treatment that is being ignored for a band aid solution is what bothers us
8. We are clearly being segregated and discriminated by the mere fact that they are willing to sacrifice the provisions of the law that provide fair and equal treatment to all
9. It may have lessened the accidents/incidents involving motorcycles on the areas where the MC lane exist, but has it reduced the over all number or accidents/incidents everywhere else included?
10. They said that their implementing guide was the ordinances issued by QC and Pasay which led to the MC lane in those areas... Does this mean that Makati, Mandaluyong, QC have issued new ordinances for EDSA?
11. Where is the IRR for the MC Lane?
12. Has any document been published?
13. Has all efforts to disseminate information to all motorists been done?
14. The MC lane is not going to solve traffic, accidents and crime... Your only pushing it somewhere else
15. Motorcycles help in reducing congestion on the road by it's ability to filter through traffic... Teaching the riders and regulating the way filtering is done will help reduce incidents involving motorcycles... The MC lane will only make EDSA more congested since you are telling the smaller bikes to line up and to be part of the traffic
16. The lack of control and enforcement on PUV's clearly shows that they are being ignored... Why?!?
The news crew from TV5 has shared images with me and it is already clear that the MC lane in EDSA is on the second lane from the center island... In-between the private lanes...
Although separated from the PUV's, we are still being crossed by other vehicles from the left, right and back... As far as the chairman is concerned, the MC lane is and will not be exclusive to MC's.... Not even semi-exclusive... Then why is it called the MC lane?
Mr. Chairman, if you can easily deploy a hundred men to watch over the Bourne Legacy shooting, why can't you deploy your men to enforce the laws of the streets instead of creating or implementing new ones that clearly ignore, violate and disregards the rights, safety and equal treatment of the people you swore to serve?!?
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