Multi Level

Although life was politically complicated during the Marcos era, life was still relatively simple at the corner of EDSA and Ortigas Avenue.

A lone traffic light regulated the flow of traffic in this intersection quite efficiently. After the bloodless EDSA revolution, a second and third level elevated roadway was built to accommodate the growing number of motorists flocking to Greenhills, to the Mega Mall, to Robinson’s Galleria and to the sprouting high-rise buildings in the Ortigas Center.

Then the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) was built presumably to have a more efficient mass-transit system in this part of the metropolis.

Chairman BF of MMDA believes that Metro Manila citizens can be healthier if they are afforded the needed exercise by ascending and descending one or two flights of stairs leading to a maze of steel foot bridges in that intersection.

I wonder why BF chose the yellow and blue theme for the concrete posts of the pedestrian foot bridges instead of the usual pink and blue. Is there more to this than meets the eyes?