Wednesday, February 14, 2007
HEAVY TRAFFIC
This was the scene at Quezon Boulevard the other day around four o’clock in the afternoon.
The vehicles on the left lane were heading south to Quiapo Church, while those on the opposite were heading north to Espana, Dimasalang, or Lacson Avenue (formerly Governor Forbes).
On top of the underpass is Claro M. Recto Avenue (formerly Azcarraga), which was surprisingly without that much traffic. Towards its left is Divisoria, while to the right is Morayta and Legarda which leads to Sta. Mesa, Manila.
The train above the avenue is the Metro Light Rail to Cubao. Apparently, the train and the vehicles on the service road near the left lane were the only ones moving; the rest were on a standstill.
If this is how Manila's major thoroughfares can get at any given afternoon, I dread the thought of how it would become another twenty years hence.
Scenes like this at times force me to wonder how Manila was during the peacetime era (before the Second World War). Well, I need not shift my imagination to overdrive for I discovered in Carlos Celdran’s blogsite a seven-minute Google video link showcasing how beautiful the city was during that time. Check it out for yourself and enjoy it.
Click here for the Old Manila video.
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Labels: city traffic, life in Manila
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