MMDA slammed for doing a Pilate

Irate motorists and commuters lambasted Tuesday night the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) for completely abdicating its responsibility to help in managing traffic and clearing EDSA of sidewalk vendors.

With traffic in many parts of EDSA going into a standstill because of a heavy downpour, many motorists and commuters used social media to slam the MMDA for not providing support to the PNP Highway Patrol Group.

“The PNP-HPG can only do so much. The MMDA cannot act like Pontius Pilate in washing its hands of the EDSA mess that is of its own doing,” said Alee, a call center agent, on FB.

Rita, a resident of Fairview in Quezon City, noted with dismay that right across the MMDA main office in Mandaluyong, MMDA personnel did not lift a finger in sweeping aside sidewalk vendors in front of the Guadalupe commercial center.

“MMDA is really inutile. The HPG forced people into the sidewalks, but there were no sidewalks as every inch of them were occupied by vendors,” said Rita.

Jeff, a manager of a business process outsourcing firm based in the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig, noted that many MMDA personnel presumably replaced by HPG troopers from their posts in EDSA, are being seen in clusters in Metro streets.

“These MMDAs do nothing. They mill in packs along streets in Makati, Manila and Taguig. We pay them with our taxes to engage in small talk,” he said. –End-

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