Baras Rizal Online

How many times have you seen the police walk around the town and just check out what’s going in the community? Except for occasional street brawls and neighbors fighting each other, I have never seen the police do the rounds, specially at night. My father has a point, the police are guarding their police station. What for?

In Metro Manila, it is a common sight to see policemen with their police buddies, sometimes with a military, going around the city. This might be asking too much, though, from the local police. In a generally peaceful community like Baras, it is quite unusual to see policemen in the streets (except for traffic duties). But then it would be good if the law enforcers would be more visible.

Fifth, I hope that tricycle drivers be compassionate to the passengers. There are two points here. Haven’t you wondered how drivers, whenever they pickup passengers in Baras Elementary School, be able to fit in 10 students in a a six-seater tricycle? Consider this: four passengers inside, three in the back of the driver, two more in the back of the tricycle (aka parilla, since it really looks like a grill), and one in the hood. The three persons in the front and the back could be sitting or standing Рwhatever the case may be, their safety is compromised.

The second issue here is, why is the fare higher when you take a ride from a tricycle who’s from a pila, compared to the ones passing by? It doesn’t really make sense to me as to why fares are higher. Shouldn’t it be more expensive to drive all throughout the town and just hope that you could pick up passengers? The last time I took a a tricycle from a pila was two years ago, and he asked me P 15, whilst if I took a ride from tricycle who just happened to pass by (with no passenger), I would only pay P 8. I suppose that they would say that it’s because of the fee they pay for their TODA (tricycle operators and drivers association), but the heck, why would they pass it to the passengers?

Sixth, lessen the tambays in the municipal building. Whenever I drop by the new municipal building to process or get something, you would always see a group of people who, in the lack of better term, nakatanghod sa hagdan. They could be either supporters of the administration of municipal employees themselves who are doing nothing. Which leads me to my seventh wish.

That is, for the municipal employees be customer service oriented. You could count in the fingers in your hand how many of them are really doing their job and helpful to anyone making business in the respective agencies. By the way, most of them are located in one side of the building. And there’s this government employee (here goes the blind item), who cannot be seen smiling unless the topic is a tsismis. He/she is always frowning.

That’s all I could think for now.