METRO Manila residents should cut the Philippine National Police (PNP)’s Highway Patrol Group (HPG) some slack for the horrendous traffic gridlock along EDSA and other major side streets. If anyone ought to be held responsible for the rapidly deteriorating traffic situation in Metropolitan Manila’s busiest highway, it is none other than Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Francis Tolentino – a putative Liberal Party senatorial candidate in the 2016 national elections.

Far from his public display of support, especially when facing TV cameras, Tolentino has actually been sabotaging the HPG’s efforts to put order along EDSA.

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