As Filipino Catholics flocked to their various churches yesterday, did priests just take a brief break from giving sermons to talk about traffic regulations?
Father Edu Gariguez, executive secretary of the CBCP-National Secretariat for Social Action, yesterday appealed for priests to be exempted from the Unified Vehicular Volume Reduction Program, in order to serve their flock better.
Father Gariguez emphasized the priests’ need to be mobile, which will be made difficult by the impending “car-mageddon,” which is expected to result to more traffic congestion.
Under the UVRP, also known as number coding and color coding, vehicles with license numbers ending with a certain digit are prohibited from using major roads on specific days of the week. The program allows certain exemptions for “vehicles used by medical practitioners in an emergency” and those carrying people in need of immediate medical assistance.
The priest noted that the exemption should be extended to them, like what is being done for doctors.
What do you think, Kapuso? Should priests be saved from hell otherwise known as urban traffic? — with report from GMA News
