It has been since the Christmas holiday season that I have observed that there was something not right about the traffic light located at JP Laurel Avenue Corner Mitsui Busan (near Yamaha). It was when we were patiently waiting for the lights to turn red and the go signal for crossing appears in the pedestrian from Victoria Plaza. Most of the people would normally cross the "long illegally acknowledged pedestrian" in between the overpass and that barricade after the NBI office. Some (even though they are using the pedestrian already) are too impatient to wait for the red light for the vehicles to appear before crossing. I'm not really sure if these people are quite suicidal but it's either they don't know such rules exist or they just don't find any logic in following them.

Going back to my story.

When the go sign to cross the street finally appeared, vehicles coming from the left side of Victoria obviously starts slowing down and went to a complete stop as the lights were already red. However, the vehicles coming from the other side of the street just kept on going and going like they wouldn't even allow people to cross the street. It was even odd to see that the light is still green while on the other side, it's already red. I mean, how could the people even cross the street if the green light is still on?

So who should give way? Can we say that the vehicle drivers are too dumb to analyze that the light on the other side is showing red and that it's time for the people to cross the street and they should stop as well? Did anybody ever realized that they should stop and prioritize the people crossing the street or maybe somebody did but made a complete fool of himself for stopping while the light is green? Or can we say that the people crossing the street have no right to cross the street during that time?

I really hope the government people in-charge with these stuff have time to check on the traffic lights around town. It confuses people about the traffic rules and worse, it can cause an accident one day.

Traffic has been part of the city already. I don't even know if we will ever come up with a solution to solve it. (Although it's not really as bad as the traffic in Manila. Thank God.) But I do think that the traffic people should monitor things and practice implementation of the rules they introduce to the public like crossing the streets using pedestrians and pedestrian over pass bridges. I mean seriously, what do you think these horizontal lines in the middle of the road are there for? Design? Or these over pass bridges are for? To be a small market place? Geez. If the 30kph (speed limit) rule is being pushed through right now, I don't think it's too late for the other rules to be revived and well-implemented as well. It's been there even before the speed limit thing anyway.