Picture this: a 2-lane road from North to South, a stretch of highway with wild grass and plants, and farmers tilling their small plots of land. A quick drive along the vehicle-starved road gives the passenger a blast of warm, fresh rustic air.
This was the EDSA of the 1930’s, then known as North-South Circumferential Road.
Fast forward to the present: a multi-lane highway lined with monoxide-spewing factories; a river devoid of fish; lanes jampacked with trucks, cars and buses enveloped in smog, heat, and a population of urbanites weaving in and out of its many intersections, exhausted from the stresses of daily urban living. This is our EDSA, the main artery linking Metro Manila’…
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