I keep seeing posts about this so-called “empty Metro Manila” in social media and I’m just not seeing it.
The comparison photo is not a good example. The top photo is of EDSA (on what appears to be a rush hour) which is ALWAYS congested, while the one at the bottom is of a random highway in the city at a non-peak hour (you could tell from the many parked cars at the side and the lack of any passengers flagging jeeps).
Personally, it’s still the same volume of vehicles (it’s particularly worse on Monday mornings which has not changed one bit) when we’re dropping off the kids at school which requires us to pass by the proverbial Killer Highway.
If there’s one takeaway from the fuel crisis, it’s that we’ve been conscious about how we expend fuel. Other than necessary trips (e.g. driving to work, dropping off kids), we pretty much eliminated everything else from our routine. No more malls, no picking up my sisters to spend the week with us, no Visita Inglesia this year, walking several blocks to do errands instead of driving, etc.
But of course, we’re not everyone. There’s still plenty of rich people that could afford petrol or EV owners with their affordable BYDs and Geely’s (right down to the Teslas) who think they’re exceptions.
I keep seeing posts about this so-called “empty Metro Manila” in social media and I’m just not seeing it.
The comparison photo is not a good example. The top photo is of EDSA (on what appears to be a rush hour) which is ALWAYS congested, while the one at the bottom is of a random highway in the city at a non-peak hour (you could tell from the many parked cars at the side and the lack of any passengers flagging jeeps).
Personally, it’s still the same volume of vehicles (it’s particularly worse on Monday mornings which has not changed one bit) when we’re dropping off the kids at school which requires us to pass by the proverbial Killer Highway.
If there’s one takeaway from the fuel crisis, it’s that we’ve been conscious about how we expend fuel. Other than necessary trips (e.g. driving to work, dropping off kids), we pretty much eliminated everything else from our routine. No more malls, no picking up my sisters to spend the week with us, no Visita Inglesia this year, walking several blocks to do errands instead of driving, etc.
But of course, we’re not everyone. There’s still plenty of rich people that could afford petrol or EV owners with their affordable BYDs and Geely’s (right down to the Teslas) who think they’re exceptions.