Dispatch from Crame No. 812:
Sen. Leila M. de Lima on the Transport Crisis during NCR GCQ

6/3/20

What in heavens were they thinking?!

How can this administration not know that easing our quarantine requires public transportation?

This public transportation debacle just as we went into the General Community Quarantine smacks of gross elitism, inexcusable lack of foresight, and ultimately a failure of leadership.

Di hamak na maraming Pilipino ang walang sariling sasakyan, walang pambayad sa taxi, at walang choice kundi magtrabaho para sa pamilya. Kung puwede lang na hindi sila lumabas ng bahay, gagawin nila. Pero ano ang kakainin ng kanilang pamilya kung hindi sila maghahanap-buhay? Paulit-ulit pa naman na sinasabi ng Malacañang na ititigil na ang ayuda. Hindi ba naisip ng administrasyon na kailangan nila ng maayos na transportasyon papunta sa kanilang pinagtatrabahuhan?

"Pasensya na lang muna." "Konting sakripisyo pa." "No choice." "Matira ang matibay." Ganun na lang ba tayo?

DOTr should fix this. Yesterday.