Back to School

One thing I hate about living in front of Ateneo is the traffic situation caused by the number of vehicles bringing kids to work. Year after year, the number of students increases exponentially. It’s crazy!

However, work has taught me never to complain about anything without offering a possible solution. So these are my recommendations on how to decrease the traffic.

• Ateneo should put a cap on the number of students being accepted. – It degrades the quality of education, and students don’t even know their own batchmates.
• Kick-out undeserving Ateneans.
• There should be a limit on the number of cars per student given car pass stickers. (I’m not sure if there is)
• Bring back the GOCO buses. – These are big buses which can accommodate 40 students.
• Bring back the MMTC buses. – These are PUBs who are stationed inside the Ateneo.
• Prohibit HS students from bringing their own vehicles.
• Provide a shuttle from drop-off points to Ateneo and vice-versa.
• Add more dormitories. – Students and buildings increase but their ratio to in-campus dormitories decrease.
• Open Gate 1.
• Teach students how to walk to school. – For South-bound vehicles, they can be drop off the students at the overpass in front of Jollibee and they can walk. There really is no need to take a U-Turn just to enter the school.
• Take those annoying tricycles out.