‘Just what will gov’t do about traffic?’
The House transportation committee demanded Thursday that the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Interagency Council on Traffic (I-ACT) present concrete plans rather than offer “palliative measures” to solve the traffic mess.
At the 10th hearing on the proposed bills to solve the problem, an exasperated committee chair, Rep. Cesar Sarmiento of Catanduanes, said his committee had been the DOTr’s “enabler even to the point of spoon-feeding you.”
“As it stands, we have not seen concrete plans that will immediately solve the traffic crisis,” Sarmiento said. “Let me ask you this: Without the Traffic Crisis Act, or any special power, what are your immediate plans that have an impact on our traffic crisis? How about when we give you powers that you seem eager to have?”
He pointed out the bill would have a life of only three years, and thus the administration should have immediate plans to solve the traffic crisis.
Sarmiento wanted the DOTr to specify which priority projects would have an immediate impact in each year of implementation.
“My colleagues here have given you their wise recommendations which I hope you have considered. And we have included innovations in the traffic crisis bill which were not in your original plan,” Sarmiento said.
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