Small, colorful and a menace on the streets--tricycles are part of Pasay's chaos as they zip through tiny back alleys, narrowly avoiding pedestrians who seem unfazed by them. Tricycles can travel almost anywhere, even for short distances along EDSA extension and Roxas Boulevard, where they brazenly overtake cars and buses, and indignantly honking their horns in the process. Although they are allowed on the service road parallel to Roxas Boulevard, they are not allowed in the Mall of Asia complex.
One-way streets? No problem. Tricycles seem exempted from that rule, forging on ahead and just swerving to the side if there is an on-coming vehicle. Stoplight at an intersection? Watch as the impatient tricycle driver miraculously finds an opening or even signals to drivers of vehicles to let them pass while other vehicles are obeying the traffic rules--all of this happening in front of a traffic enforcer, who either is too busy or too used to the sight to pay heed.
