No special plates for members of the congress

Of course, that has always been what most people want, officials who don't abuse the privileges that have from being elected. And yes, seeing what our new president seems to be symbolize, I guess the outcome of the country does seem promising but, of course, as I have heard most of the time, he is only human as well. Perhaps there are some things that are out of his control and we just have to wait and see on how he would deal with the problems that the country is having as well as how he would fulfill his promises during his speech when he was officially recognized as our new president. Well, its not really far from being possible. Having everyone go earlier to avoid being late would indeed have them travel altogether. Of course, I didn't mean any specific time. I was only suggesting on it being plausible. They can go early, be in a moderate to heavy traffic flow with the other passengers that are also early, and still arrive early to their work or whichever place that they are headed to.

Their privileges only extend up to their immunity against certain kinds of lawsuits. They should still follow the traffic rules. And even if they are getting special treatment, they shouldn't abuse it at all. They shouldn't use this power vested on them 'for personal gain. If the plates are abolished, it's up to the LTO to round them up. By the way things are going, I think it would be easier to do this during PNoy's term. One thing PNoy did was to drive a lot of apathetic Filipinos to concerned citizens. He opened their eyes on the injustice that we just let happen. Also on being early. Early doesn't always mean the morning or a specific time. It's relative to whatever you're doing/supposed to be doing. Like if your work is at 8:00 and you know that it'll take you an hour to get there, try leaving 1 hour and 30 minutes ahead. People who have to work at 8:00 but live nearer can leave on a much later time, let's say, 7:30 if his work is just 5 to 10 minutes away. Or if the work is at 13:00. Leaving early would mean to leave at about 11:00. It's leaving early. not leaving in the morning. People's times vary. The need to go to some place is not the same for everyone, so traffic would still be distributed. Leaving early is better than leaving a few minutes before the meeting and just disobeying traffic rules just because you can, and just so you won't be late.

i am sure a lot will be pissed of by this. it won't belong before politicians would start hating him for it. but they have no choice the president will follow it.

@juggerogre I hope so too. It's a pity I forgot his name. I was dozing on and off when I heard that on the radio. They shouldn't think that they're way above us because just like you said, without us, they won't be in position. @LetranKnight Yup! a lot will be pissed. A lot would miss the abuse of power they're doing just to avoid traffic. I hope this proposal will push through and will be enacted as soon as possible

They should. I'm glad PNoy is starting in setting the example. They must be ashamed of themselves if they try to set themselves above the citizens because the president is currently setting himself at the same/lower level than the citizens

It is indeed a good start. Hope they'll start implementing this soon. This special plate really made them abuse their power. They can commit traffic violations without the fear of getting their licenses of cars confiscated, and the worse part of this is that they are alowed to have 4-pair copies of the plate, meaning up to 4 cars of one official could have this plate. Since there's only one official, and he could only be in one car at a given time, someone else will be using his/her car with the special plate. It could be a son/daughter, wife/husband. Anybody whom he allows to use the car which is not a government official is also enjoying the privilege of the special plate!

Precisely! A politician is just the same as any citizen. It just so happened that he's working for the government

Yup. Senate president, speaker of the house and probably the chief justice. All the top positions of the nation will be allowed to have special plates. I think special plate numbers to 8 are for congressmen and senators. Not sure though.