Published December 17, 2020, 12:13 PM The largest group of real estate developers and other stakeholders in the housing sector has joined the bid of Valenzuela City Mayor Rex Gatchalian to urgently end the traffic mess caused by the RFID toll booth systems saying the actions taken so far by the local chief executive are both commendable and decisive not only for his constituency but also for the millions of motorists who have been suffering for many years. Photo credit: https://www.creba.ph/ In a letter to Mayor Gatchalian, the Chamber of Real Estate & Builders’ Associations, Inc. (CREBA) lamented the horrendous traffic, in major arterial roads such as the privately-operated NLEX and SLEX, no less, stretching to everywhere else in Metro Manila and surrounding provinces, that it said has long been a “pandemic of its own.”The group said there is an urgent need to review not only the systems of the country’s private toll operators but the country’s entire transportation policy to bring an end to the usual “carmageddon” that rob our people of millions in precious time and lost opportunities every day.