Egay Uy
THE weekly Values Reformation and Traffic Education Sessions of the RTA resumed Sept. 5 after cancellation of sessions because of the City Fiesta activities that required the presence of almost everybody in the department.
I’m sure the culmination of the fiesta activities elicited sighs of relief among RTA employees who sacrificed extra hours on the road just to ensure the smooth flow of traffic in areas where street activities were held.
The extra assignments of both the field and office personnel also gave them time to bond with one another, thus strengthening the ties within the department. And of course, new insights were had on how the field operations personnel behaved and did their respective jobs.
Those were inputs for the managers of the department on how to further improve the delivery of services that the RTA is mandated to do.
To the men and women of the Roads and Traffic Administration, keep up the good work!
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The VRTES has been the venue where RTA personnel discuss the core values that the department wants to develop among its personnel. These values represent the acronym “Hapsay” (Honesty and Integrity, Attitude, Public Service, Safety Consciousness, A-Productivity, and Your Team).
Aside from the discussion of the core values, lecturers from among the ranks are also assigned to discuss certain topics on traffic, e.g., rules on parking, prohibition against obstructions on the road, and the like. While we can always invite speakers to talk on traffic rules, asking the employees to do the discussion themselves have double- or triple-edged effects.
For one, the lecturers themselves get to review firsthand the specific provisions in the traffic code which they implement on the road. Secondly, they are trained at the same time how to speak before a crowd. Thirdly, learning from peers is also an effective way of enriching one’s knowledge.
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People may have been expecting so much from the RTA. We understand that expectation levels have risen and we are doing the best we could to level up, even with the castrated budget of the department. I just hope the critics will not forget what happened to the proposed programs that would have expedited making the roads hapsay but were met with sharp hatchets of local legislators.
(Lawyer Egay Uy is chairman of city hall’s Hapsay Dalan Task Force.)
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