It's Like Watching Money Burn

If you live in Davao City, you'd be very familiar with the Diversion Road. It cuts from Ulas all the way to Buhangin. We frequently pass it lately since we take this road to head to Bajada or F. Torres. And if you have been passing by the road frequently, you'd definitely notice the numerous curve arrow signs found on both sides of the road. These signs come in handy at night since Diversion Road is indeed curvy and accident-prone. But DPWH wasted money by putting too much of these signs. Even areas with curves as little as 5-25 degrees have these, even those curves that are even barely noticeable. We reportedly have around 500 or 600+ of these curve reflector signs while Subic only has 15. The project engineers, I know, are not blind and stupid. They just chose to be because they got money out of it. Lots of it. We all know that a huge percentage of the budget for projects by the DPWH gets pocketed by the officials and project engineers. Our roads are obvious signs of corruption in the country. I mean, hello, we all know that we have educated drivers (you can't get your license if you aren't one anyway) and our drivers know how to handle roads. The whole Diversion strip isn't an accident-prone area. The reflector signs look like expensive trash on the sideline. I swear, the government doesn't know how to handle money, the taxpayers' money, the peoples' money. They just go around wasting it on useless projects and want the world to think that they are providing us with quality service. Hello, the money used on all the useless crap placed on Diversion Road's sidelines could have been used for health, education, or housing purposes. In this way, a certain few in the 90% of the country's population could have felt the service that the government owes its people.
As our car speeds down Diversion Road one more time, I try to ignore these attention-seeking red reflectors. I try to ignore the idea that I'm flying by millions of pesos. The thought gives me a headache.