Easily a pet peeve along my commute is Tikling or Kaytikling Junction in Taytay, Rizal. I think traffic here is worse than two other major junctions in Rizal Province - Cainta Junction and Masinag Junction in Antipolo City. And that is because of the combination of traffic management (or mismanagement) by elements of the Taytay Municipal Government and motorists lack of understanding of how vehicles should position (or travel) at roundabouts. Of course, the volume of motor vehicle traffic converging at this junction would probably merit traffic signals over a roundabout but for most times when there are no enforcers here, traffic is somewhat more efficiently flowing as drivers and riders are forced to give way in order to not constrict traffic.
Enforcers often employ the "buhos" system of prioritizing traffic for one leg at a time. However, instead of a quick transition from one leg to another, they tend to give more time to vehicles coming out of the Manila East Road and turning left and (west)bound for Ortigas Avenue Extension. The long time allocated to the latter means long queues for traffic coming down from Antipolo and those from Cainta.
Enforcers are partial to outbound traffic from Taytay rather than make an effort to have more equitable 'go' time for all legs at the junction.
One wonders who is in charge of traffic for Taytay considering they mismanage traffic everyday. [Though I also wonder why the rest of Rizal including Antipolo and Cainta can't seem to be bothered by the congestion emanating from Tikling.] As if to prove the point of incompetence, another problematic intersection is the Highway 2000 - Barkadahan Bridge - East bank road intersection, which is signalized and yet somehow always congested (or saturated). But that's another story.
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