Managing Metro Manila traffic

THE Senate inquiry into the provincial bus ban in Metro Manila would be more productive and useful if it desists from confusing 1) the work of policymaking or lawmaking, which is principally a function of the legislature, with 2) the work of setting administrative rules and regulations, which is principally a function of the executive branch and its agencies.

While finding fault with the decision of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to implement a provincial bus ban along EDSA, Sen. Mary Grace Poe, chairman of the Senate public services committee, lectured MMDA executives that “the bus ban is not a substitute for rational, consulted and evidence-based policymaking.”