Quotes for Posterity (aka Baguio Local Elections 2010), Part 1
Quote #1″Let’s face it. Much money has been invested (for the project) and removing it would be impractical.” Fariñas, appealing to the various sectors to just consider the benefits the flyover would give to the city like traffic relief in the area.
Let’s face it, there was no traffic in that area until they started building the stupid flyover! Much money was wasted on an unnecessary, ugly, impractical structure that arose from the figment of someone’s imagination on how to make massive money from the project.
If there was truly traffic congestion in the area, Domogan and Vergara could have first tried an effing stoplight before wasting a hundred million on a few meters of a concrete monstrosity.
Quote #2 “If indeed the construction of the BGH flyover is marred with corruption, let the actual structure be the evidence of wrongdoing,” Vice-Mayor Daniel Fariñas.
Duh, what an absolutely asinine thing to say! It’s like saying, “Let the concrete pine tree be the evidence of any wrongdoing by its ‘author.’” The structure will never be considered evidence by the courts. They will require documents and testimonies. The structure in itself will be a symbol of curroption. Why should we build monuments to corruption, haber?
In fact, let’s add another Php64,000,000.00 to complete it.
Quote # 3
“Fariñas said the City Government does not have plans of stopping the flyover’s construction even with feedbacks that a flyover in the area is not needed” Sunstar Baguio in the same news article.
Who cares about consultation? The project was not backed up by a study. Why should they listen now to the complaints of the people? They know us better — Baguio residents only complain in coffee shops.
Quote #4
“With your kind indulgence therefore, allow me to declare the city of Baguio as the center of education in the north,” Peter Rey Bautista shifting the focus from tourism to his brand of education.
Meaning: Let’s use all the city’s monies and resources to support my family’s billion-peso business!
Meaning: Let’s make the whole of Baguio City an extension of our teeny-weeny campus for free! We do not have trees, but allow our students to hang out at Burnham. We do not have a track oval but I own Baguio now, and we can use the Athletic Bowl. You poor people can provide our dormitories and eateries and make pennies while we get a billion pesos in gross receipts from our sure-fire diploma formula!
Meaning: I am such a good educator (heck, I graduated from my family-owned school, and taught in my family-owned school where any student can enroll without an entrance exam) that I was able to implement the no segregation-no collection of garbage so efficiently because everyone in Baguio is so intelligent they cannot see the motives behind my moves.
Meaning: Let us appropriate all business taxes to create projects that will cater to my family-owned business
Meaning: Let me put all these in place so when I run for congress is 2010 (I will never win against Domogan anyway and all I want to be is a ‘legislator’ anyway — cushy job in Manila that receives a pork barrel and yet no flak from bloggers) my family business will be fully supported by Baguio City at no extra cost to us.
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Hi Lisa,
That fly-over is really unnecessary but really, whether or not it is needed is not the issue. For people who decided that it was needed, it’s more like “how much is my share.” Who cares about the opinions of Baguio residents anymore? I am really out of ideas on how to make Baguio classy once more.
Peter Rey insists that an educated population will make the residents love their city better. In the case of Marikina, a clean and orderly city makes the citizens love it more. His first step was to make it dirty.
And what kind of education is he purporting to give the city? The UB kind?
Baguio gets classy with LESS. Less jeepneys, less emissions, less trucks, less buses, less plastic, less cement, less peddlers, no grafitti, less transient students.
ha!!!!! ang yaman ng ub… pero wla nmn silang generator pag brownout… damn….. tapos an taas ng tuition….
I think the flyover is in the wrong place. You’re right! There’s no traffic in that area— I wish they built that flyover somewhere along the La Trinidad highway (KM5-KM4). It would have been helpful to us, i-trinidad, who go to the city everyday and get caught in the middle of traffic. Sometimes public servants who invest more in infra projects are like impulsive buyers who shop just to spend the budget that they have.
Just like the unfinished fly over, it now looks like an abandoned structure that should be demolished— the iron bars and concrete materials will soon rust and diminish– and still there will be not enough budget to finish it.
What a waste of money. sigh
jagfdo welcome!
domogan was just able to weasel another 60m from congress to complete it. rumor has it that the money was taken from the benguet allocation for farm-to-market projects. not fair to benguet, if ever. not fair to baguio.