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A survey among members of the Makati Business
Club indicated strong support for the work of Bayani Fernando
as Chairman of the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA).
In a survey conducted over a two-week period ending 5 December,
over 90% of members surveyed said they were very satisfied
or somewhat satisfied with his work thus far. Only 7% said
they were undecided while the rest said they were dissatisfied.
 Almost
three quarters of the survey's respondents said they had noticed
a little to a lot of improvement in Metro Manila traffic since
Mr. Fernando became administrator. One quarter said they noticed
no change in the traffic situation.
An overwhelming majority, 94%, strongly agreed
with Mr. Fernando's contention that sidewalks were for general
public use and therefore must be cleared of vendors and obstacles.
A majority also agreed with Mr. Fernando's proposal
to remove the present "odd-even" or so-called "color-coding"
scheme which bans private cars from the road for one day a
week from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm.
The survey results were evenly split with 28.7%
strongly agreeing and strongly disagreeing over Mr. Fernando's
proposal to open up selected private subdivision roads to
public use, provided it would help alleviate traffic in the
area. However, 20.8% somewhat agreed with the proposal, tilting
the results in favor of opening selected private roads.
Surprisingly, 46.5% (the plurality) somewhat
or strongly disagreed with the Chairman's idea to reduce the
truck ban hours in Metro Manila. The truck ban limits business
deliveries to certain hours and has the effect of raising
the cost of delivering goods within the metropolitan area.
One third of the respondents felt that the truck ban should
be reduced.
The results, part of a new Business Opinion
Survey Series (BOSS) conducted by the Makati Business Club,
had 101 business executives representing 12.8% of the membership.
The surveys will be conducted quarterly starting December
2002 covering a range of social issues of concern to the business
community. Ninety percent of respondents were from top management
and over 70% were Filipino men.
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