I realized something when I was going home last night. On the end of the southbound side of Coastal Road there stands a line of MMDA pink fences separating the traffic between those vehicles headed towards Cavite and those pushing towards Las Piñas.

While many people despise Bayani’s pink fences, especially those along EDSA, for Las Piñeros, those particular fences are a blessing since the traffic going to Cavite is hell while the flow going to our city is almost always green and go. So the pink fences provide us a free passage; otherwise the Cavite-bound vehicles will occupy the whole width of the highway and we’d slog through the traffic standstill until the fork in the road.

Anyway, what I realized is that those pink fences are not in Metro Manila. They’re in Barangay Zapote V, Bacoor, Cavite. (To get to Las Piñas from Coastal Road, you enter Cavite for a short while.) Those pink fences should not be there; MMDA has no jurisdiction outside of Metro Manila. (The Makati mayor might cite this gleefully as a case of the MMDA chairman overstepping his bounds.)

Then again, it’s entirely possible that since Coastal Road is a National Highway, the local government has no jurisdiction over it and since MMDA is directly under the Office of the President, MMDA’s actions is not really illegal. A more probably explanation is that MMDA coordinated with the municipal government of Bacoor or the barangay of Zapote V.

I’m such a bore, aren’t I?