Tuwid na Daan cuckolded by gridlocked toll road interconnection

OVER the past few years, I have been silently suffering from the failure of government to integrate the toll payment systems of the SCTEX and NLEX. Like many others from my area who frequently enter the SCTEX, then migrate into the Mabalacat end of the toll road for the NLEX. For every interconnection, the puzzlement over why the Easy Trip, while perfectly OK for the NLEX does not work at the SCTEX (cash basis), despite the single toll operator, pushes an aging, diabetic motorist like myself to pull—in extreme frustration —what can be pulled from my fast-dwindling hair.

This is the “Tuwid na Daan” remember. A mundane act such as a toll road migration, should be a breeze. Seamless migration into interconnected toll roads is part and parcel of “Tuwid na Daan” governance and a symbolic one too, given the literal phrasing of the governing philosophy…Good governance is about serving the people.