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House Speaker Pantaleon D. Alvarez, Majority Leader Rodolfo C. Fariñas and transportation committee chairman Rep. Cesar V. Sarmiento (Lone District, Catanduanes) have filed a new Traffic Crisis Bill which contains the output of the marathon hearings conducted by the committee on various proposals to grant President Duterte with emergency powers to ease traffic congestion.

House Bill 4334 or the proposed “Traffic Crisis Act of 2016 Maki-isa, Makisama, Magka-isa” was presented by Sarmiento during the recent hearing of the transportation committee to get the views of stakeholders from various sectors on its specific provisions.

In their explanatory note of HB 4334, the Speaker, Farinas and Sarmiento stressed the bill is “an urgent, immediate, and comprehensive response to the traffic crisis that is prevalent in the Metropolitan Manila Area, Metropolitan Cebu, and Metropolitan Davao.”

According to the House leaders, the proposed Act is “a living, organic enactment. It will pave the way for further legislation aimed at alleviating the land-based traffic crisis not just in the identified Metropolitan Areas but other parts of the country where such crisis may exist.”

Sarmiento reiterated during the hearing that the present traffic crisis is the result of unresponsive systems and institutions the country had for so long. “This is our problem, and House Bill 4334 will address that if the systems and institutions provided under the bill are established. We will be on the right track to achieving a sustainable, orderly, predictable and safe transport systems for the country,” Sarmiento said.

Sarmiento asked for the participation of all stakeholders in reviewing the bill and improving on it. “We ask for your support so that this bill is passed before the end of this year and it will address the traffic crisis in the three Metropolitan areas in three years,” Sarmiento said.

He read specific provisions of the b

After 42 years of being officially included in the territorial jurisdiction of Metro Manila, Pasig City remains the official capital and seat of government of Rizal province – a lingering reminder of the one-man martial rule launched in 1972.

Rizal Rep. Isidro S. Rodriguez Jr. said the province, particularly the four lawmakers representing it, want to correct this inaccuracy by making Antipolo City the capital of the province named after national hero Dr. Jose P. Rizal.

Together with Reps. Chiqui Roa-Puno and Romeo Acop of Antipolo City and Michael John Duavit of Rizal, Rodriguez co-authored House Bill 3046 seeking to transfer the capital and seat of government of Rizal from Pasig City to Antipolo City.

On official record, Rodriguez explained that Pasig City continues to hold the distinction of being the capital city of Rizal although it had ceased to be part of the province when the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos signed Presidential Decree No. 824 placing Pasig and 10 other Rizal localities under Metro Manila territory.

“The unusual situation persists due to the lack of congressional action declaring the official capital of the province anywhere else within the province,” noted the authors of HB 3046.

A similar bill had been passed by the House of Representatives but was never enacted after Senate ran out of time in approving the measure.

In the explanatory note of the bill, the four lawmakers said provincial officials are strongly advocating swift passage of the measure.

In fact, the provincial board passed Resolution No. 146 in 2013 earnestly requesting the Lower House to declare Antipolo City as the capital of Rizal province.

“The bill seeks to realize said objective and finally put to rest the question on the official capital of the province of Rizal,” the four solons said.

Acop and Puno explained that Antipolo City has been chosen as Rizal’s capital as provincial leaders agree that it is the most pr