Yes, that’s plural. In Metro Manila, there are many urban planners, pero walay urbanidad!
Engineers, until now, many esterus remain unclogged of garbage especially of plastic, napkins, etc.There’s a saying “When everything has been said and done, there are more said than done!”
I used to be frequent to Manila (Metro, that is) and saw with my two eyes, contractors destroying/hammering with komatsu wrekers, good cemented roads to lay out another set of concrete in order to spend all before the year ends. But no money “daw” to dredge the “enteruses”! Just like what they do in the Davao Region. They will “bak-bakize” bad cement including good ones!
The purpose? You guessed it! But no money to improve the drainage of ricefields along road which were made virtually like glaut dikes. Like those roads in Central Luzon, Pangasinan, etc. which made lakes of those rice and corn fields! Why? They are highways but culverts across are too few and too small, like the brains of those who designed them.
In the first place they should have read the long history of the development of those flood plains. Those floodplains were developed due to innovations and siltations over a thousand years ago. So, when there’s flood it is but natural because these were responsible in making those land. Our engineers should have made 5 times the sizes of those culverts and canals!
I think we can’t blame them entirely because the professors of the colleges/universities where they graduated did not realize the need to include those concepts into their curriculum. Even examiners don’t know how to include them in their exams!
Its about time, our engineers go back to school. But before that our professors should have refresher course.
