The Inside Man
It has been said that the car was the greatest invention of the 20th Century. Being a little over a 100 years old, the car is no longer an oddity on the world's roads.
Easing Holy Week traffic by 2013
Getting stuck in slow moving traffic during Holy Week is a given. In fact, it would have been abnormal if traffic was smooth and free flowing on Maundy Thursday.
Take off from the Zen temple of a showroom, Lexus Manila, was1600hrs, Friday. EDSA and C-5 traffic was molasses thick. Then detour to Don Enrique Heights, on Commonwealth Q.C.
Year 2016: Highways and Byways with P-Noy
It's early 2016. President Benigno Simeon [B.S.] C. Aquino, still a bachelor, relaxes by taking a drive. The Nation, post New Year, is transfixed on the coming Presidential elections.
Last year, a couple of broadsheets took an informal survey of daily commuters and drivers on EDSA. The most numerous complaint the respondents had was against the unruly behavior of 2-wheelers.
In the field of economics there is this Schumpeterian idea called Creative Destruction, which essentially means that to be able to build anew, one must demolish the old.
So what is the rush? Why the traffic? Christmas here last at least a hundred days. That is plenty of time yet a good number die due to drunken driving. They say alcohol and driving should never mix. But who are we kidding?
The Inside Man looks into what seems to be a lost year for the auto industry in 2011 through the looking glass.
While we look forward to Christmas 2011, the Inside Man envisions into what he hopes beholds us for next year's holiday season.
Our new benchmark, Mimi's baby
Once in a while, The Inside Man digresses from the usual scholastic treatises on Socio-political pseudo-Economics, Infrastructure, Human Behavior, production engineering and the invisible hand of government...