So now it's a cable car we should look into?

We just can't leave the Department of Transportation (DOTr) on its own without closely considering its latest caper…a cable car, the kind being used to address the traffic problems of La Paz, Bolivia. First of all, I would like DOTr Sec. Arthur Tugade to explain why the cable car is a better mass transportation system than what the others have prepared. First of all, the city of La Paz is heavily squatted and therefore it is similar in situation to Metro Manila. But then perhaps all the similarities end there!

I have a personal preference for the tram which most cities in Japan use. I dare you to go to the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only cities in the world that tasted a nuclear attack. Yet when the Japanese government reconstructed these two devastated cities, they resumed using their tram system. I dare you go to Europe and you will discover that most big European cities use trams for its mass transit system, so while we are studying a cable car system, I dare say to Tugade that the DOTr should consider the possibility of using a tram system.

Like it or not, the cable car was successful only in La Paz, so it is not really in wide use except for tourism areas. But the tram has been a very successful mass transit system that is widely in use worldwide (remember the tram cable car in San Francisco is still being used up to now). So I would like the DOTr to also study the use of trams as a potential mass transit for us and not just the cable system in Bolivia. Mind you, the ancient city of Jerusalem just newly opened its tram system and you just cannot believe why a city so ancient as Jerusalem would use a tram for its Mass transit system.