Manila seeks way out of traffic jams

MANILA - Kit Reyes lives in a city in northern Metro Manila, and works at a call center in Taguig, a city 18 kilometers away but still within the capital city.

To get to work at 9 am, he needs to get up as early as 5 am. Otherwise, he will fail to make it to work on time.

"The distance sounds manageable, to be honest. But if I don't wake up early, I'll lose my job to traffic, and to the unreliability of the train system," he said.