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Local Literature Traffic congestion in Metro Manila has worsened in recent years due to increasing vehicle ownership and some drivers' inability to follow rules. With over 37 million employed Filipinos and billions of students relying on public transportation daily, traffic jams can negatively impact work and school performance by causing tardiness and stress. Commuters often spend extra hours stuck in traffic each day, leaving less free time and potentially causing overall mental and physical fatigue. The government needs to address traffic issues to improve quality of life.

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Local Literature Traffic congestion in Metro Manila has worsened in recent years due to increasing vehicle ownership and some drivers' inability to follow rules. With over 37 million employed Filipinos and billions of students relying on public transportation daily, traffic jams can negatively impact work and school performance by causing tardiness and stress. Commuters often spend extra hours stuck in traffic each day, leaving less free time and potentially causing overall mental and physical fatigue. The government needs to address traffic issues to improve quality of life.

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Every day, being stuck in traffic is perhaps what every commuter and motorist hopes to avoid. With the
fast paced increase of car ownership in Metro Manila alone, peaking a max of 2,101,148 registered
vehicles in recent years based on LTO study, add the citizen-noted inability of some drivers to follow
rules, traffic congestion has been recognized to have worsened compared with previous years.
International news station CNN even reported a popular GPS-based navigation app’s research
concluding Metro Manila as one of the cities with the “worst traffic on Earth” in 2015. But just what
exactly is the impact of traffic in every commuter’s life? Traffic causes underperformance of the
commuters, The Philippine Statistics Authority reported about 37 million employed Filipinos from last
year. Perhaps about half of this number work and travel through the main thoroughfares of the city to
get to their workplace in Central Business Districts daily. On top of that, billions of students also rely on
public transportation to get to school. Given today’s private and public institutions, tardiness takes away
a huge chuck in one’s performance. A mere hour spent enduring traffic in EDSA alone could affect one’s
job or study greatly. What’s worse is that when employees and students get stuck in gridlock, they feel
stressed. A feeling which can also affect how they process their deliverable. It won’t take long before
company owners and teachers see the effect of traffic jams to the economy. It will also causes to an
unbalanced time management, Most companies in the Philippines allot 8-9 hours of work for every
employee. Say, employees clock out at 5:00 PM to get home the fastest they can, it’s not a guarantee
that they will arrive home right away. Given that this hour is what people consider as “rush hour” about
80% of Filipinos get jammed in traffic; reporting an average of two hours spent on the road before
getting home. Only then can they get to do daily chores. If they’re not that tired upon arrival. It also
includes over-all fatigue, Some commuters these days experience a combo of tired muscles and mental
stress during commute. Having to endure the thought of riding a bus or whether to get a bus at all in the
next hour is just extra cognitive work for someone who has worked 9 hours or more. An article from The
Huffington Post website even claims that commuters are likely to be “anxious, dissatisfied and feel
meaningless” due to the hours they spend outside. This results to an over-all tiredness or fatigue.

Unhealthy body due to traffic congestion is one of the major problem in the Philippines. Many
commuters suffer from being stuck in traffic including stresses, tired, and body pain that they feel in
every single day of their journey. It requires more time of rest but less time to do some school stuffs or
work activities even household chores, as this cycle continous, the brain can also be affected resulting to
anxiety and unconsciousness. As such, the government needs to give an attention on how to lessen or
totally solve the problem about traffic congestion system to improvement the Philippines.

Foreign literature

Environmental impact of road traffic


Road traffic causes environmental hazards
Transport and traffic, especially motor vehicles, cause many kinds of detrimental impacts on the
environment and health. The main hazards are climate change, deterioration of air quality and noise.
Roads and parking take a great deal of space. Road construction and the manufacture of transport
equipment require materials and produce waste. Other significant hazards caused by transport and
traffic include use of natural resources, reduction of biodiversity and spoiled ground water.
Public transport, walking and cycling are in key roles in hazard control

Developments in the automotive technology and new fuels can effectively reduce emissions, but vehicle
fleets are replaced quite slowly. Emissions from transport and traffic can be reduced by improvements
in community structures and the conditions for public transport, walking and cycling. Emissions can also
be cut with pricing and taxation policies that curtail driving. Each and everyone can help to cut emissions
and improve air quality by using public transport, cycling and walking. Car pools, car sharing, combined
transport, economical driving and use of low-emission vehicles are other means to reduce hazards
caused by transport and traffic

References:
How traffic affects lives. Inquirer Lifestyle
Environmental impact of road traffic. City of Helsinki.

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