Parking in different contexts

While watching the investigations conducted separately by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the now shockingly humiliating topic “flood control projects”, I heard the word “parking” a number of times. Parking?

- Aven Piramide

Because the government agency that was (though it still is) the focus of the legislative inquiries was the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), I thought that the personalities who spoke of parking referred to the Land Transportation and Traffic Code which defined it as “xxx a motor vehicle (that) has been brought to a stop on the proper edge of a highway, and remains there inactive xx for an appreciable period of time.”

As the investigations continued probing, I realized that “parking” had a concept different from what I learned in Law school. As it surfaced in the Senate and Congressional hearings, parking so meant another thing that I had to do some research to put the word in its proper context.

What I found from my research are circumstantial pieces of evidence. Resource persons gave mind-boggling answers to leading questions from senators and congressmen. There were technical papers presented too. Still, my observations led me to form a kind of opinion that intellectuals can dismiss as mostly speculative. Even in that perception of its being purely a speculation, I dare to share it with you out of the abundance of caution for whatever worth it may have.