Friday, March 24, 2006
FX HOLDUP RUMORS
distributed by SMS messages from 117:
Beware of white FX with name: LYN ANN and name plate AVD617.
Holduppers ang driver pati pasahero.
distributed by SMS messages from 117:
Beware of white FX with name: LYN ANN and name plate AVD617.
Holduppers ang driver pati pasahero.
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
March 13, 2006
Bus Runs Over Accountant
A 56-YEAR-OLD accountant died when he was hit by a bus while crossing Ayala Avenue at the corner of Rizal Drive in Makati yesterday morning. Anacleto Lontoc, a resident of Binan, Laguna, was brought to the Funeraria Filipinas on JP Rizal Avenue for autopsy. The bus driver of the Fermina Express bus (NYR 525), Novelson Flores, 36, was taken into police custody and could be charged with reckless imprudence resulting in homicide.
Tarra V. Quismundo
from INQ7NET
pictures ciculated via email
Bus Runs Over Accountant
A 56-YEAR-OLD accountant died when he was hit by a bus while crossing Ayala Avenue at the corner of Rizal Drive in Makati yesterday morning. Anacleto Lontoc, a resident of Binan, Laguna, was brought to the Funeraria Filipinas on JP Rizal Avenue for autopsy. The bus driver of the Fermina Express bus (NYR 525), Novelson Flores, 36, was taken into police custody and could be charged with reckless imprudence resulting in homicide.
Tarra V. Quismundo
from INQ7NET
pictures ciculated via email
Thursday, June 19, 2003
THE KATIPUNAN TREES GET A STATEMENT
circulated via e-mail to alumni of all three schools.
STATEMENT FROM ATENEO, MIRIAM AND UP
We Need Real and Long-term Solutions
We strongly oppose the removal of trees and destruction of islands along Katipunan Avenue. These measures will not solve the traffic problem. We need real and long-term solutions.
The MMDA is trying to do its job by widening Katipunan in order to reduce traffic. However, we contend that cutting the trees and removing the islands are in fact measures with high cost and little gain.
The damage to the environment, the compromise of safety, the deterioration of quality of life, the devaluing of community effort and the harmful anti-nature messages conveyed to the younger generation are too high a price to pay for improbable gains in traffic reduction.
We ask MMDA not to rush into their standard solutions that may have worked elsewhere but may not be appropriate or optimal given that nature of Katipunan. Katipunan is home to three major educational institutions--the Ateneo de Manila University, Miriam College and the
University of the Philippines--who have been in the area since the early 1950s. Certainly speed norms even for highways have to be adjusted to this school zone.
We should not have to remind MMDA about the appropriate consultative processes required for major change efforts that affect the life of a community.
Thus, we ask that the various sectors of the Katipunan community and the MMDA work together to explore alternative solutions to the traffic problem. Specifically, we propose that all removal of trees and islands be stopped for a six-month period. During this period,
alternative measures should be seriously studied and tested. These would include (among others) the following:
I. Decongestion of Katipunan
A.Improved system of public transportation to the area
B.Possible connecting road between Ateneo and Miriam College
C.Schemes such as pick up and ride for students,
Katipunan "shuttles" or "ikots", carless days, etc.
II. Proper and strict traffic management and control
A.Enforcement of traffic and parking rules along Katipunan
B Improved system of traffic lights and better trained traffic personnel
C.Proper placement and use of service roads and sidewalks
III. Attitude and behavior change
The officials, faculty, students and employees of the Ateneo, U.P. and Miriam College, parent groups, owners of business establishments, residents, environmental activists, traffic and transport experts and all other concerned groups in collaboration with the MMDA
should work hand in hand for "hard" as well as "soft" real, long-term and sustainable solutions -- solutions that work, that we can be proud of and that we can all live with for a long time to come.
BIENVENIDO F. NEBRES, S.J.
President Ateneo de Manila
PATRICIA B. LICUANAN
President Miriam College
FRANCISCO NEMENZO
President University of the Philippines
circulated via e-mail to alumni of all three schools.
STATEMENT FROM ATENEO, MIRIAM AND UP
We Need Real and Long-term Solutions
We strongly oppose the removal of trees and destruction of islands along Katipunan Avenue. These measures will not solve the traffic problem. We need real and long-term solutions.
The MMDA is trying to do its job by widening Katipunan in order to reduce traffic. However, we contend that cutting the trees and removing the islands are in fact measures with high cost and little gain.
The damage to the environment, the compromise of safety, the deterioration of quality of life, the devaluing of community effort and the harmful anti-nature messages conveyed to the younger generation are too high a price to pay for improbable gains in traffic reduction.
We ask MMDA not to rush into their standard solutions that may have worked elsewhere but may not be appropriate or optimal given that nature of Katipunan. Katipunan is home to three major educational institutions--the Ateneo de Manila University, Miriam College and the
University of the Philippines--who have been in the area since the early 1950s. Certainly speed norms even for highways have to be adjusted to this school zone.
We should not have to remind MMDA about the appropriate consultative processes required for major change efforts that affect the life of a community.
Thus, we ask that the various sectors of the Katipunan community and the MMDA work together to explore alternative solutions to the traffic problem. Specifically, we propose that all removal of trees and islands be stopped for a six-month period. During this period,
alternative measures should be seriously studied and tested. These would include (among others) the following:
I. Decongestion of Katipunan
A.Improved system of public transportation to the area
B.Possible connecting road between Ateneo and Miriam College
C.Schemes such as pick up and ride for students,
Katipunan "shuttles" or "ikots", carless days, etc.
II. Proper and strict traffic management and control
A.Enforcement of traffic and parking rules along Katipunan
B Improved system of traffic lights and better trained traffic personnel
C.Proper placement and use of service roads and sidewalks
III. Attitude and behavior change
The officials, faculty, students and employees of the Ateneo, U.P. and Miriam College, parent groups, owners of business establishments, residents, environmental activists, traffic and transport experts and all other concerned groups in collaboration with the MMDA
should work hand in hand for "hard" as well as "soft" real, long-term and sustainable solutions -- solutions that work, that we can be proud of and that we can all live with for a long time to come.
BIENVENIDO F. NEBRES, S.J.
President Ateneo de Manila
PATRICIA B. LICUANAN
President Miriam College
FRANCISCO NEMENZO
President University of the Philippines
