Today was the worst traffic in the history of Novaliches! A construction has been on-going in the intersection of Mindanao and Quirino Highway for quite some time now. The purpose of this construction is to build an underpass to ease the traffic in this high volume intersection. But before we could get there, the authorities decided to give us HELL first. Maybe they're thinking, light in the end of the tunnel perhaps?

Anyways, today, as usual, my son got ready for school. We left the house at 7:15, we reached Mindanao Avenue at 8:15. What's wrong with this, you say? WE ARE 2 KILOMETERS AWAY FROMÂ MINDANAO AVENUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The 2KM drive, supposed to be 8 minutes from our subdivision, to Mindanao Ave became 1 HOUR!!!!!!! 1 HOUR!!!!!! Can you imagine driving 2 kilometers for 1 HOUR!!!!!!!!! It would have been faster walking!!!!

What happened is, authorities decided to hasten the construction and just leave only one lane open in Mindanao Avenue. The volume of traffic coming from the subdivisions inside Bagbag and San Bartolome and even General Luis, vehicles from Quirino Highway going to the other side, vehicles from Valenzuela, vehicles from Mindanao going to Talipapa, all need to pass by this one lane!!! Just image the volume of traffic in EDSA Guadalupe passing in one lane full of rubbles. Literally HELL ON EARTH!!!!!!!

Authorities should consider the motorists. They should consider the money/business lost in these situations. They should have planned detours. They should have at least thought of something to ease our pain!!! This is a national government project, if it was Mayor Sonny Belmonte managing this project, this wouldn't have happened. The people of Novaliches are calling for your attention and for your action Mr. Mayor. We have complete confidence in you sir.

I just hope someone could let him know of what is happening here.

Here is another rant from another blogger, skamid.com. Maybe if we write more about this, we'll get some attention!