EDSA MC Lane... The battle for our rights, safety and equality has a new location...

TV5 News just came and have sought for our reaction on the recent move to implement the MC lane on EDSA...

As far as we are concerned, we are still in the same position as before...

Just in case they cut the interview short and all that I have said does not come into the interview once they broadcast it, I have mentioned the following:

1. The infrastructure is not ready
2. The MC lane should not be called the MC lane because everybody else is allowed to use that lane
3. Lack of enforcement for the existing laws is what's keeping the problems rampant
4. Lack of proper screening and stricter issuance of licenses allows more and more undisciplined road users on the streets and behind the wheel of a vehicle
5. Creation of new laws isn't the solution, stricter enforcement of the existing ones will put everybody in place
6. Just like anything implemented, once it has taken it's time in the limelight, it is easily forgotten and put aside
7. The intention is not the issue being questioned in fact, we applaud it... It is the part where basic rights, the safety act and the equal treatment that is being ignored for a band aid solution is what bothers us
8. We are clearly being segregated and discriminated by the mere fact that they are willing to sacrifice the provisions of the law that provide fair and equal treatment to all
9. It may have lessened the accidents/incidents involving motorcycles on the areas where the MC lane exist, but has it reduced the over all number or accidents/incidents everywhere else included?
10. They said that their implementing guide was the ordinances issued by QC and Pasay which led to the MC lane in those areas... Does this mean that Makati, Mandaluyong, QC have issued new ordinances for EDSA?
11. Where is the IRR for the MC Lane?
12. Has any document been published?
13. Has all efforts to disseminate information to all motorists been done?
14. The MC lane is not going to solve traffic, accidents and crime... Your only pushing it somewhere else
15. Motorcycles help in reducing congestion on the road by it's ability to filter through traffic... Teaching the riders and regulating the way filtering is done will help reduce incidents involving motorcycles... The MC lane will only make EDSA more congested since you are telling the smaller bikes to line up and to be part of the traffic
16. The lack of control and enforcement on PUV's clearly shows that they are being ignored... Why?!?

The news crew from TV5 has shared images with me and it is already clear that the MC lane in EDSA is on the second lane from the center island... In-between the private lanes...

Although separated from the PUV's, we are still being crossed by other vehicles from the left, right and back... As far as the chairman is concerned, the MC lane is and will not be exclusive to MC's.... Not even semi-exclusive... Then why is it called the MC lane?

Mr. Chairman, if you can easily deploy a hundred men to watch over the Bourne Legacy shooting, why can't you deploy your men to enforce the laws of the streets instead of creating or implementing new ones that clearly ignore, violate and disregards the rights, safety and equal treatment of the people you swore to serve?!?