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VIP disease

The Philippine Star

February 12, 2025

EDITORIAL

No week passes, it seems, without some VIP – or the VIP's security escort or factotum – entering the EDSA busway, and then demanding to be let off or driving away when apprehended by traffic enforcers.

The vehicles and government officials entitled to use the EDSA Carousel have been widely publicized. These are ambulances that are actually carrying patients, fire trucks and other emergency vehicles, and the convoys of the incumbent president, vice president, Senate president, House speaker and the chief justice.

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