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3 Cost Effective Ways to Solve Metro Manila's Traffic Problem

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The Facebook page of ANC 24/7 is asking for its reader's suggestion on how to solve Metro Manila's traffic problem. This got me thinking, "what is the best way to solve Metro Manila's traffic problem?" It's easy to make suggestions, what's hard is the implementation and the cost of implementation. So what is the the best way to solve Metro Manila's traffic problem and the most cost effective solution? Punitive Fines Add caption First of all, any implementation will definitely cost money, a lot of money. The cause of the traffic mess is the people themselves so it's only right that those causing the traffic problem should be fined and the fine should hurt. That way, the fines will pay for the cost of enforcing the law. The fines should start at P500 and goes up every week if you don't pay it within 15 days. To enforce this and prevent people from ignoring the fine. It will be tied to their driver's license or car registr...
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One-hour rotating brownouts in Metro, Luzon—Meralco

From the Philippine Daily Inquirer . ====================== MANILA, Philippines – Parts of Metro Manila and Luzon should expect one-hour rotating brownouts Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., according to power distributor Manila Electric Co. Joe Zaldarriaga, Meralco external communications manager, in an interview over dzMM, said outages were expected in certain areas in Caloocan, Quezon City, Malabon, Batangas and Cavite. Zaldarriaga explained that the outages were due to a 245-megawatt power supply deficit in the Luzon grid. This deficit is expected to further worsen to as much as 380 megawatts by 2 p.m., he added. ======================= This is the problem with having short term vision and corruption in the Philippines. Instead of tackling this problem 10 years ago. The government basically gave Meralco and the IPPs the task of handling the problem. And as expected, all they did was to build something to maximize their profits instead of actually solving the problem. They basically ...
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Solar Roadways

An interesting concept on using roads as solar panels. Only problem is, it's ridiculously expensive. Estimated cost to make all of US roadways solar? US$35 Trillion. So right now, it's just a dream. Full article at http://www.americainfra.com/news/solar-roadways/
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