If you go by their pronouncements, it seemed that Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada and Vice-Mayor Isko Moreno have solved the traffic problem in the city with a simple stroke of a pen. They instituted a bus ban in Manila in order to reduce the volume of vehicles on the road.

As if magic, the bus ban had an immediate effect the day it was implemented. Freely flowing traffic along Espana and other thoroughfares in Manila was observed as buses from Quezon City had to turn around near Welcome Rotonda as they were not welcome anymore in the City of Man.