When market preference rejects a state mandate

IN the entirety of the pandemic period, people who have been commuting between Metro Manila and areas in Central Luzon and Northern Luzon, which for all intents and purposes represent the market, have unilaterally rejected a government-mandate, which was to use the North Luzon Express Terminal (NLET) private exchange in Bocaue, Bulacan as boarding and disembarkation point, the last stop of their trips from the provinces. Which would require them to take double or triple trips to their final destination in Metro Manila proper.

And they take the same torturous path on their return to their provinces.