Politicians love to celebrate incredibly basic infrastructure milestones. The Philippine government just acquired a tiny parcel of land in Bicutan. They plan to build a massive transit hub linking multiple delayed railway systems. Bureaucrats desperately want public applause for finally doing their basic jobs. They conveniently ignore the decades of catastrophic urban planning failures.

A City Trapped in Concrete

Millions of Filipinos waste their entire lives trapped in agonizing, endless traffic jams. Corrupt officials and wealthy property developers continuously stall these critical projects. Right-of-way disputes and gross incompetence delayed the Manila Subway for years. Now, the government plans to hand the operations over to private corporate monopolies. The taxpayers fund the massive construction, but private companies will extract the profits. The trains might arrive eventually, but the systemic political rot remains permanent.

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