It is Time for that MRT/LRT Fare Increase
If MRT coaches could only speak, they would probably complain about why, after 10 years of faithful service, their chance for rehabilitation and improvement is being opposed by the very people they have dutifully serviced from the very early hours of each morning till 10 in the evening. I wonder why some people would pay tricycles special rides 30 pesos at least, but oppose paying the same amount for a convenient MRT ride. Can't they see how derelict the condition of our MRT/LRT system is? If you go to the Quezon Avenue station, the escalators could hardly move and the elevators could barely carry three people. These facilities are needed by the other abled, children and senior citizens; however, in the state they are in, climbing up the high stairs (which are dusty and sometimes sleeping quarters of the homeless and vagabonds) seem to be a faster alternative. In the past months or years, for that matter, because of the many accidents and mishaps in the MRT or LRT, I