Cardinal Tagle should shed a tear for Caviteños as well

Cardinal Tagle should take a bus ride from his native Cavite to Manila on a Monday morning. Here is what he would go through after getting off his bus very near the city: hours of waiting for a transfer ride to the city proper under either a scorching sun, or a heavy downpour.

He would be with pregnant women cursing, persons with disabilities swearing expletives at the MMDA in particular and the Aquino government in general, grumbling students late for class, anxious workers late for work. He would be witness to the general dislocation, despair and discomfort of those robbed of one of the tender mercies of the Cavite Everyman—a straight bus ride from Cavite to points in Metro Manila.