Crazy Baguio Drivers

I brought my daughter to school today and we rode a jeep. It was so annoying because the driver kept making sudden breaks and everybody gets thrown forward every time he breaks. Just yesterday, I rode in the same jeep but it was driven by a different driver and it was driven smoothly so I concluded that the driver this morning is where the problem lies. I asked myself, could this driver still learning how to drive? Then how come he is already driving a passenger jeepney, and in the process endangering the lives of 23 passengers including himself. Crazy driver!
To reach my daughter's school we had to walk from Abanao Street through Harrison Rd., cross infront of BPI, go up and pass by McDonald's, cross again infront of CID, go up Assumption Rd., and finally cross infront of gate 1 of Saint Louis School Center. We cross the street at least 3 times to finally reach the school. But I make it a point to cross only at pedestrian lanes (teaching by example and all that). But everytime we cross, its like playing patintero with vehicles. Lots of vehicles just zip by without stopping to let us cross. My fellow pedestrians, who are mostly students, make a full stop and wait till there are no more cars before we cross, instead of the other way around. We had no choice because the cars would not stop to let us cross the PEDESTRIAN LANE! Crazy drivers.
Trancoville jeepney drivers are the worst drivers in the whole Baguio City. Aurora Hill jeepney drivers are a close second. They pick up and drop passengers anywhere, on no loading-unloading zones, on pedestrian lanes, in the middle of the street. They drop passengers at the middle of street, even when one foot is still on the jeep, they accelerate and leave you jumping infront of incoming traffic. When they wait for passengers at loading zones, it takes them 30 minutes before they finally go. They even wait on pedestrian lanes so that pedestrians have to cross outside it because the jeep is blocking the lane. I had a shouting match once with an Aurora Hill jeepney (AYD 183) driver because his jeep is blocking the pedestrian lane infront of SLU main gate. I told him to move his jeep forward as it is blocking the lane. He got mad and shouted at me saying he is just earning his living. I shouted back saying I am not asking him to leave, just move as he is blocking the lane. As I left, he never moved his jeep, and he was still saying things which I didn't listen to anymore. A moment later, I regretted shouting back because I know it never even made any difference to the driver. Trancoville drivers do the same in front of SLU gate 3. They wait for passengers even when they know they are causing traffic. And while waiting for passengers, they continually toot their horns (classrooms are less than 20 meters from where they wait). Do they think tooting their horns would attract more passengers? Crazy drivers!
Two years ago, a government employee from the Commission on Audit hit our car while we were going right at the intersection of General Luna and Magsaysay Avenue. Her car was obviously going so fast because after the impact her car careened over 10 meters forward. Also, she admitted that she was in a hurry because she was bringing her daughter to school in La Trininad, Benguet and it was already past 7:00 am. Who would speed up in an intersection, with your kindergarten daughter in your car? Crazy drivers.
Then at the police station, the driver's husband, owner of Ka Luis car wash, tried to weed out money from us saying it was our fault. He was asking us to pay for his wife's car damages. He even produced a supposed witness to the accident. What!!! His wife hit our car and we will pay her??? Crazy Luis!