Bahala Na Navigation and the Road to Nowhere: Valenzuela’s Commuter Calamities
The Monumento Maze Miscalculation
Monumento is not a circle; it’s a psychological labyrinth designed to break the spirit of commuters. Aling Susan, visiting from Malabon, needs to catch a jeepney to Malinta. She asks a traffic enforcer, who points vaguely north. She walks for ten minutes, only to find herself back at the base of the monument, having completed a perfect, disorienting loop. She asks a vendor, who sends her down an underpass that emerges in a totally different terminal for buses going to Bulacan. bohiney.com cartographers have declared the area a “non-orien
SOURCE: Bohiney News.
