Traffic rules are there for a reason: to be followed. It’s as simple as that. Just because nobody’s around to enforce them doesn’t mean you can go ahead and ignore them.
Case in point? The EDSA Busway. If you didn’t get caught using the busway today, that doesn’t give you a free pass to do it over and over again. And when the time comes that you do get caught, at the end of the day, you’ll still be at fault.
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Why are we saying all this, you ask? You see, there was a rider that went viral on Facebook recently. He got caught inside the bus lane somewhere along EDSA, and then he threw a tantrum after he got flagged down. “Sana araw-araw kayo nanghuhuli,” the erring rider exclaimed. *sigh* No wonder fellow road users keep calling us riders kamote. Poor behavior like this all but justifies the name-calling.
In the end, the rider gave his license and registration anyway. He did say he will contest the violation, but we’re just not sure how he’ll be able to. It’s as clear as day that he deserves that ticket, just like all the other motorists behind him do.
The Inter-Agency Council for Traffic (I-ACT) has been clamping down on busway violators as of late. Several motorists have been ticketed over the past few weeks thanks to the I-ACT’s operations. The problem here, though, is that authorities aren’t on EDSA every single day—the one thing the raging rider was so mad about—so motorists just go back to their busway-violating ways. Perhaps more random ops like this one will make people think twice before riding or driving into the bus lane.
Anyway, if you want to see the rider throwing a fit, you can check out the I-ACT’s video below.
