Cagayan de Oro blog

A motorcycle parked at Vamenta boulevard, Carmen, Cagayan de Oro near West City Central School

When turning left you must turn into the left most lane. When turning right, you must go into the right most lane. Though this is the law or at least proper driving etiquette, very few Cagay-anon drivers follow it.

So what will happen if there’s a car blocking the far right lane? This passenger jeepney driver is really unmindful of the traffic rules. Vehicles supposed to have a free flow turning right. Common traffic scenario at Vamenta boulevard -J.V. Serina St. junction, Carmen (near KSY).

Hey!, traffic officer, aren’t you supposed to give that driver a traffic violation ticket?

Christmas lights along Limketkai road tend to act as the official mark of the holiday season.

Bus at Agora Terminal bound for Tacurong, Bukidnon.
Commuters traveling by bus to their provinces in time for Christmas might not get to their destinations on time, but they would surely get a ride.

Waiting time for buses has been longer as the number of bus riders for Christmas increased compared with that observed during the All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days holidays in November.

The travelers increased because of the long Christmas holidays. Government has declared Dec. 25 and 26 as holidays, followed by a weekend.

Not so busy day. A shot taken at Licuan-junction, Velez street, Cagayan de Oro City

Glaring car headlights seen at Lapasan highway.
Many of the vehicular accidents and automobile fatalities, directly attributable to the use of blinding headlights. Can this be regulated or checked?

Part of Pabayo Street, approaching divisoria, was closed to vehicular traffic to pave way for the City’s “Night Cafe”.

Entering the entrance gate after disembarking from the plane at the Cagayan de Oro Airport.

The DENR, DOTC and DOH have not performed their respective mandates to ban toxics, ensure safety of taxi drivers and passengers, and protect their health.
While liquefied petroleum gas offers a cheaper alternative to gasoline and emits lesser global warming carbon gases, public health concerns over the effect of LPG on drivers and passengers should be looked into.
Thousands of taxis all over the country have been equipped with retrofit LPG tanks thereby exposing drivers who work a straight 24 hours and others who work 12 hours 5 days a week and their unsuspecting passengers to ethyl mercaptan, the natural gas odorizer which had its first industrial use in Mid-East oil and gas pipelines at 0.25 part per billion.
Unfortunately, it causes irritation of mucous membranes including those of the lungs thereby causing pulmonary edema. At very high concentrations, it also causes narcosis in animals and expectedly the same in humans.
Workers who were exposed to a 4 parts per million concentration 3 hrs daily over 8-10 days suffered headaches, nausea, fatigue and the classic irritation of mucous membranes.
A taxi driver, a retired Mideast OFW but who has a BS Chemistry from Adamson University informed one of the undersigned that within three years, older taxi drivers presumably with weaker lungs, get very sick and have to stop taxi-driving.
We are respectfully requesting the above departmental secretaries to respectively ban the use of ethyl mercaptan as an odorizer in LPG tanks for vehicles or cooking, the use of obviously leaking LPG tank system retrofits in taxis, and public and private hospitals to establish the occupational hazards which caused pulmonary edema in their patients of whom 50 sickly old, taxi drivers are presently confined at the Philippine General hospital. We are also alarmed over reports that a taxi driver in Cagayan de Oro died due to exposure to toxins from LPG.

Roger C. Birosel
Secretary General Earth Saver’s Movement
and Ben Cyrus
Ellorin
Spokesperson, Task Force Macajalar