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Vehicle refuge during floods
Passing Felix Avenue one early morning this week, I saw familiar scene. There were lots of vehicles parked along Felix Avenue (formerly Imelda Avenue) including the service roads along either side of this major road connecting Marcos Highway and Ortigas Avenue Extension.
These vehicles are owned by residents of subdivisions along the avenue whose areas are prone to flooding. These include Vista Verde, Metroville, Kasibulan, Karangalan and the two Green Parks. I didn’t see this along the stretch so the other flood prone villages like Village East and Country Homes. Perhaps they have been able to adapt better?
Car-centric discussions aside, when you go the ‘east’ you will notice a lot of people using SUVs. One reason probably is because many Rizal towns including Antipolo City, and Pasig and Marikina Cities are prone to flooding. Can you imagine over 50 years of flooding in these areas? And then with the current investigations concerning flood control projects, have you wondered if the ‘east’ really got their taxpayers’ money’s worth in terms of interventions?
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Here comes the rain again…
And just like that, Habagat is here and dumping rains upon us again. Yesterday’s downpour during the early afternoon resulted in flash floods including a few along our route home.
The combination of heavy rains and floods have significant impacts on transportation as traffic slows down or even stops as roads become impassable. As most commuters are dependent on road based transport, this means a tremendous inconvenience to a lot of people.
I’ve also written about this topic before. Despite the implementation of various flood control and drainage improvement projects, we seem to be back to square one once the rains come. There is certainly something wrong that the floods are still here after spending so much to mitigate them.
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Caught (up) in traffic 