Talong Festival costly for motorists
Posted on January 23, 2007 - Filed Under Punch Forum |
P. Pines
23 Jan 2007
Congratulations on the Talong Festival! Unfortunately it was a "peste" for me and hundreds of others in cars, buses, cargo trucks etc. Why the town of Villasis with several hundred hectares of land has to close the McArthur National Hi way just to have a street party and inconvenience others who have nothing to do with the town, is beyond me. Rerouting traffic from Carmen going to Urdaneta is not the answer. That route is an additional 30 minutes and without street lights. Rerouting the traffic through the side streets of the town brought us to the very rough and dusty barangay roads and took us over 1 hour what should have been a 10 minute trip to the Urdaneta border. Traffic going south from Urdaneta reached the Purina Feed Mill. So the real cost of that celebration was more than what the town paid for.
Please do not do to McArthur Hi Way what the mayor of Manila does to Roxas Blvd. I am sure the people of Villasis would not want to be stuck in a traffic jam in some other town or city for hours just because the fiesta is being held on the national road.
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