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Premature BF Campaign Posters seen in N. Ecija
N. Ecija residents see Bayani’s posters as premature 2010 campaign effort
Giant posters of Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Bayani Fernando, found hanging in street of Cabanatuan and Talavera town in Nueva Ecija, raise speculations that the MMDA chair is set to run for the 2010 elections.
Some residents claimed that they saw the stickers of MMDA on the vehicles used by the people who placed Fernando’s posters along the town’s streets.
“I saw some trucks and a van who brought those posters here, they have an MMDA sticker,” one of the residents said in Tagalog.
Another resident added that it was his first time to see the posters, but said he is sure that the posters were an early campaign scheme of Fernando for the 2010 polls.
Cabanatuan City Mayor Alvin Vergara said that he has no idea why Fernando’s posters scatter around the town’s streets. He also added that he has no projects involving the MMDA chair.
Fernando’s posters convey messages on following the law, cleanliness, and discipline; the same messages tagged with his posters found in Metro Manila.
An Open Letter to Bayani Fernando
To: Mr. Bayani Fernando
Chairman, MMDA
Dear Mr. Fernando,
I can’t help but wonder why floods are still everywhere within the Metro Manila area during a down pour, even if your office had already spent millions of tax payer’s money cleaning the estero’s and rehabilitating the pumping stations. I grew up in the same street where I am living now, and I can only remember once or twice (at most) wherein our street got flooded due to heavy rains — take note, “heavy rains”.
But now, it is very much different: the entire street gets flooded after a 20-30 minute rain. No, I am not complaining because I am against you, but I do not see my money’s worth in the way your office handles flood control.
Another thing, was it really necessary to have your face posted in every tarpauline that your office will post in the streets? True public service need not to have a face — people need not to know who leads what agency or office, as long as they are doing their jobs (right). Same goes with the “BAYANI” stickers pasted on almost all buses plying the avenues of the metropolis — is it a necessity?
I am not sure if you are very much aware of how much each tarp poster or sticker cost, but I do not think they are helping in the improvement on how Metro Manila looks from the eyes of a citizen.
Thanks for your time reading this letter. More power, and I do hope to see less of MMDA tarps with your face in the very near future.
Best regards,
Bayani Fernando for President – Before and After
Bayani Fernando for President – BF4P is dangerous
Bayani Fernando for President – EDSA First
Excerpt from An Waray Party-List Website
BF told to solve EDSA traffic first before aiming for presidency
Chairman Bayani Fernando of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) was urged Sunday to solve the traffic along EDSA before aiming for the presidency and offering to tackle bigger problems.
“If he cannot untangle the daily traffic gridlock along EDSA, I don’t think he should offer himself to run the country, which is facing bigger and more serious problems,” Rep. Florencio “Bem” Noel of the party-list group An Waray said.
Noel said if Fernando is able to cut travel time along EDSA from Quezon Avenue in Quezon City to Pasay City by half, he would earn for himself bragging rights that would be a big asset in his presidential aspiration.
Noel, however, said instead of easing EDSA traffic, Fernando and his MMDA people “have become part of the problem.”
He cited the concrete islands and pink metal fences MMDA erected near Greenhills in San Juan and in front of Camp Aguinaldo and near New York Street in Quezon City, which he said have effectively eaten up one lane of the busy highway.
Noel pointed out that various groups of travelers and vehicle owners, traffic policemen and local officials have blamed these concrete barriers and pink metal fences for the constriction of the road and for innumerable vehicular accidents, many of which have resulted in deaths.
“It’s bad enough that they employ a trial-and-effort, hit-miss approach to the traffic problem. But what is worse is that when it is very evident that such approach does not work, they insist on pursuing it and do not make the necessary correction,” Noel stressed.
He said the islands and pink fences that Fernando built on EDSA are as useless as the passenger loading and unloading bays and steel fences he built along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City.
“As in EDSA, these loading and unloading bays and the trademark pink fences are a constriction in Commonwealth. Now, they are even building traffic islands there to further constrict the highway,” he said.
Noel added Fernando and his people are apparently creating traffic chokepoints in areas where there are none.
