One more thing: you cannot burn fat in your body by getting bigger pants, but this is apparently the solution that has been commonly implemented in Manila. Widening roads at the cost of sidewalks has been so far a preferred solution to traffic congestion, so citizens cannot walk even if they wanted to. I do not think the problem is generally the lack of roads, but the lack of reliable public transportation and the excess of cars. The Bonifacio Global City is an example of this. Unlike in Singapore, where owning a car was made difficult in purpose in order to collect taxes and avoid traffic congestion, easy bank credits in the Philippines has facilitated the purchase of cars to the point that thousands of them are newly added to the roads every year.