Totoo marami ngang reklamador na Pinoy, pero sa tingin ko lang e may difference sa Disciplinarian, at sa Megalomaniac / Fascist.
Madaming fault yung u-turn scheme (most especially the contradicting idea that it's set in the FAST LANE) pero tinulak pa rin ni Bayani despite that and glaring safety concerns (pedestrians). Gagamitin ko yung Katipunan avenue as an example. School zone po iyun. Even if the main issue is Rush Hour Traffic, it's still a school zone and the safety of the students (grade school/high school even college students) should also be a concern.
What Bayani did was he removed the pedestrian lane and banned tricycles from crossing over to the other side. Did it solve the rush hour traffic? A bit. However it created a lot more problems, particularly for commuters and pedestrians. What's more, the u-turn scheme makes it especially hazardous to vehicles making a U-turn. With cars barreling towards you at 90KPH, nakakatakot mag-uturn, lalo na at nasa FAST LANE ka.
Later on the u-turn slots became very congested, because it was only a single lane. So what did Bayani do? He made it two lanes. Solution found. However, it created another problem: bottlenecking. Now fast cars have to break quickly (because they are on the fast lanes) because there's a bottleneck around the u-turn scheme (ganito din sa EDSA/Roxas Blvd u-turn slot).
A "solution" he implemented was to constantly move the u-turn slots around. This only made it a bit worse because now you can't predict where they are if you haven't driven there for a while.
If the main concern was Rush Hour Traffic, he sure did his job in handling that....by ignoring other important issues (pedestrians, and general road safety)
Sa MOA u-turn slot, ang mga jeep e kumakain ng hanggang 3 lanes para lang mag-u-turn. That's swerving!
Concerning the trees: ewan ko kung sarcastic yung nag-quote sakin, pero oo dapat natin mahalin ang puno.
Not only do they provide shade, pinapaganda ang lugar. Bayani defied the DENR (how's that for following the law?) by uprooting and replanting (if e ever did, and it was not done according to the law) old trees that lined White Plains and Katipunan Avenue. Despite legal protests from both youth activist groups and the DENR, Bayani moved the trees during the MORNINGS (usually at 3-5AM). That seems not only fascist pero parang patago na e. He not only ignored the people he's serving, he did it in a subservient way.
So what was the reason for removing the trees? To improve traffic. Certainly the 2m that 9each island consumed is enoughfor a car to go through, he thinks. BUT, later on he placed concrete barriers to replace them. (?!?!?!?!)
Now the once-scenic EDSA/White Plains route is a barren short expanse of road with ugly concrete barriers in the middle. He placed a u-turn slot in the middle, so now there is a bottleneck of two lanes that are completely useless because the cars don't bother returning to the middle lane on such a short road.
Here's another issue: Bayani's road Signs.
Who thought that PINK and WHITE make the best color contrast? Kahit 20 meters away e hindi pa rin mabasa ng drivers yung karatula e. The international standard is either dark green with white letters (good contrast, easy to read) or dark blue and white (same thing)
Bayani Fernando might be an authoritarian and a guy who "can make things happen", pero grabe naman, pag-aralan muna nya yung gagawin nya bago nya gawin.
