SBMA's World-Class Traffic Management

Comment from a reader on Subic's World Class Traffic Management

"Proudly citing the world-class traffic management system in the Subic Bay Freeport, SBMA administrator Armand Arreza said that global-competitiveness could start with a most unlikely economic pursuit: traffic discipline."

Hmmmmmm I guess he is referring to the hand painted signs at the Royal intersection or the traffic lights that don't work. But to their credit they keep painting the arrows and lines in the streets.

[The Subic Bulletin] Yes we did read SBMA's NEWSROOM UPDATE on the traffic handling inside the Freeport.

http://www.sbma.com/newsroom/16jun09.html

Lt. Benjamin Evia, SBMA traffic branch chief stated that "the Subic system adheres to international standards of road engineering, which includes signage."

We feel sure at the time he made that statement the hand painted wooden signs must have slipped his mind but Lt Evia still needs to do a little more homework. Lets take stop signs for example, international standards dictate that a stop sign must be 75cm across, but this can be reduced in certain circumstances to an absolute minimum of 60cm. The "toy sized" stop signs that SBMA is erecting around the Freeport are only 45cm across, well below international standards.

http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/HTM/2003r1/part2/part2b1.htm#section2B04

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_sign

http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/SHSm/regulatory.pdf

Under the laws of most countries all tickets issued for not stopping at these stop signs must be voided. If they want international standards SBMA needs to start getting these things right!