Public Administration: DPWH

-The department of public works and highways manages the, well you’ve got it already,
highways of the Philippines that connects towns and cities with each other. Focusing on making an
efficient route for trading and just getting people to places where they need to be. This also includes the
transports of products, and even your Shopee delivery. Enough joking aside, the goal of the Department
of public works and highways is to find and make a more efficient roadway for transportation to use to
get where they need or want to be, which also includes public works such as water pipes under the
roads to reach houses or for private companies to use to put up new electrical lines to power houses
and establishments and even government buildings and leisure parks. But in this discussion we are going
to focus on the Highways itself.

-The DPWH’s decision making depends on the administration that the DPWH has, which is
government appointed officials to deal with the specialized problems that the department focuses on.
Mark A. Villar being the head of office, he is the highest official in the department, and relays the needs
and fund request to the executive branch of the government. And from Villar, it branches out to local
DPWH offices that deals with road works in certain districts and places in the Philippines micromanaging
the system, and Villar left to macro manage the whole Department.

-The DPWH’s Time factor is just efficiency, where cost is low, with good quality, and done fast to
not be a hindrance to the public. However, public opinion says otherwise. According to the post of
Filipino citizens about our road work in the Philippines “Sa Amerika, ang daan na sira ay inaayos. Sa
Pilipinas, ang daan na maayos pa ay aayusin na.” And thus the time factor of the DPWH is quite not
seen by the public eyes properly.

Private Administration: NLEX

Corporation, as Subsidiary of Metro
Pacific Investment Corporation.
- This Private company’s goal is to simply make expressways, a more efficient roadway that
crosses through different provinces in the most accessible way possible, with fast routes, good
maintenance, and for profit. These privatized roadways are the closest to thing to your fastest
route to reach places. No longer zigzagged roads that follows mountain sides, and no more
routes that avoids are longer to take to go to the place you need or want to be. Their only goal is
to make a profit out of the necessity of the People to travel fast, efficient, and more gas efficient
with each ride. As a rider myself, I would prefer for a more gas efficient route rather than taking
roads that are both tiring and ragged, and not scenic and fast.
- The Decision making starts at the very parent company which works fast since money talks in
the private administrations. They could easily make the stretch of road once they are approved
by the government and have acquired the land. Compared to the SCTEX and NLEX roads, the
government made roads since their road widening project is still undone and funds seems to be
scarce. But in these types of Corporations, decisions are fast, and thus funds are easy to come
by, and no more process to follow if they want to build a road or not.
- Their Time Factor is simply, fast with quality. They make roads faster than how the government
makes a simple alley. With asphalt, and efficient roadways, more people are going to pass
through. Time is money, and to them, the lesser the time they can make their road be for the
riders and transportation, the more money they can get.