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Transcript
00:00A commuter or a motorist is paralyzed due to the heavy traffic in Metro Manila.
00:06According to a study, two cities in the LCR are on the list of the slowest traffic in the world.
00:15This is the story of James Agustin.
00:22The factory worker from Ricardo, from Monumento in Caloocan,
00:27has two more vehicles to get to his job in Paranaque.
00:30He says he spends two and a half hours on the road because of the traffic.
00:35He's just about to get in.
00:37It's hard. It's really hard.
00:42Because you're just in the traffic.
00:46Even if you're out, you're in the traffic for a long time.
00:55Mario, a maintenance personnel, also travels for almost an hour
00:58from Malabon to Manila.
01:01That's why he wakes up early every day so he won't get stuck in the traffic.
01:05It's hard, but it's just hard.
01:08It's hard to travel because it's just for the family.
01:10It's hard because of the traffic.
01:13Especially at 6 in the afternoon, when you're going home.
01:16It's really traffic.
01:17It's really hard.
01:18It takes an hour.
01:19It's hard to travel for less than an hour.
01:22It's like there's no time limit for the traffic.
01:25That's what the drivers of public vehicles feel.
01:28It's too much.
01:29It's not even 50 minutes.
01:32Especially in the afternoon.
01:35It takes more than an hour.
01:38Sometimes, it takes two hours.
01:40In our trip, it's just a little bit.
01:44It's not too much traffic.
01:46It's just traffic on the road.
01:49In the 2024 Traffic Index released by Tomtom,
01:52a Dutch navigation and digital mapping group,
01:55there are 26 places with the slowest travel time
01:59in 500 cities around the world in terms of studies.
02:02It takes 30 minutes and 44 seconds
02:05for a vehicle to cover 10 kilometers.
02:088th in the ranking is Davao City.
02:11The travel time is 32 minutes and 59 seconds,
02:14while 14th is Manila
02:16which has a travel time of 32 minutes and 10 seconds
02:19for every 10 kilometers.
02:21The increasing traffic has a big effect on life.
02:24The drivers earn less money
02:26because they work for their families every day.
02:29Our income is low and we travel slowly.
02:32That's how it is.
02:34We'll be in traffic for a long time.
02:36How do you manage the distance?
02:38Just be patient.
02:41Just be patient while traveling.
02:44If we're not patient, we can't do anything.
02:47You'll be in traffic for a long time.
02:50You can't do anything.
02:52James Agustin reporting for GME Integrated News.

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