Overpass forlorn
Classes have opened for Silliman University Basic Education students. They mill, they gather, they congregate around the gates waiting for their rides. They ignore using the Overpass that hangs above the historic acacia trees, a marked intruder into this arboreal paradise of birds and butterflies, bees and other insects. Very few people express any satisfaction or approval of this monumental disgrace, some went so far as to splatter paint on the billboard announcing its construction. Many students held candle-lit vigils in the forlorn hope that the construction could be stopped. Nothing seemed to prevail over the megalomanic desire of partylist congressman Sunny Madamba to spend large amounts of people's money to trumpet to all the world his great achievement, the construction of an overpass that nobody wants. His grand structure straddles a narrow street that is easily crossed, his name brazenly emblazoned over this ill-conceived structure.
Silliman University forcefully opposed the expansion of the Dumaguete Port. Why is it silent in this folly? Is it complicit in its conception? Does Silliman University condone or approve of this plan? Where is the wisdom of this monstrosity? Is it merely to emulate the big cities like Cebu which has wider lanes that need to be spanned by an overpass in order to provide safe passage to pedestrians and to maintain a free flow of traffic? Is it to use up the good congressman's Countryside Development Fund (CDF). Could he not have put those monies to better use? for countryside development perhaps?
I am afraid that this folly is indeed a blot on the record of Silliman University. I wonder how the partylist congressman justifies this enormous, eggregious blunder? Every time the common people passes by this structure, one hears their disgust vented in no uncertain terms. Are they not heard? Do the people have a voice at all? Are they ever consulted in matters that involve them? Are the powers that be so powerful in their own right? Does the term "power emanates from the people" mean mere lip service to the concepts of true democracy?
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Silliman University forcefully opposed the expansion of the Dumaguete Port. Why is it silent in this folly? Is it complicit in its conception? Does Silliman University condone or approve of this plan? Where is the wisdom of this monstrosity? Is it merely to emulate the big cities like Cebu which has wider lanes that need to be spanned by an overpass in order to provide safe passage to pedestrians and to maintain a free flow of traffic? Is it to use up the good congressman's Countryside Development Fund (CDF). Could he not have put those monies to better use? for countryside development perhaps?
I am afraid that this folly is indeed a blot on the record of Silliman University. I wonder how the partylist congressman justifies this enormous, eggregious blunder? Every time the common people passes by this structure, one hears their disgust vented in no uncertain terms. Are they not heard? Do the people have a voice at all? Are they ever consulted in matters that involve them? Are the powers that be so powerful in their own right? Does the term "power emanates from the people" mean mere lip service to the concepts of true democracy?
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