IT is a suggestion that borders on heresy here in the Philippines, but it is one that is fully supported by plain, painfully obvious reality: There are simply too many cars in this country, and no amount of road infrastructure development is ever going to be able to efficiently accommodate them all, or keep up with the growth of the vehicular population.

This reality is problematic in just about every possible respect. Automotive assembly over the last several years has been the go-to industry for policy efforts to expand the Philippines’ manufacturing sector, and because of very robust demand—which is attributable to a number of factors, not all of them positive—it is one area where economic development efforts have met with clear success.

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