Makati City Mayor Abby Binay (Mark Balmores/ MANILA BULLETIN)

Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas senatorial bet Makati City Mayor Abby Binay shared on the campaign trail a valuable tip that only a chief executive from a major local government unit (LGU) can. 

According to Binay, granting incentives to companies who hire local residents is a good way to ease traffic congestion and improving local economies. 

“Such a policy would create more jobs and increase local economic activity in so-called bedroom communities and address traffic and congestion concerns in Metro Manila," she said during the Alyansa slate's recent press conference in San Jose del Monte City, Bulacan. 

The 49-year-old mayor reckoned that this strategy would benefit San Jose del Monte and other localities adjacent to Metro Manila regarded as “bedroom communities,” where a considerable number of residents commute daily to work in the metropolis. 

Makati is home to the country's central business district. 

Meanwhile, Binay noted the economic boom that San Jose del Monte City had been enjoying. 

"Kung meron namang trabaho na dito, hindi na sila kasama sa traffic. Kung may trabaho na dito, hindi na nila kailangan lumabas pa ng San Jose del Monte," she said. 

(If there are already jobs here then it doesn't add to the traffic. If there are already jobs here, they no longer need to get out of San Jose del Monte.) 

"Encourage more companies to open in the city and also incentivize those companies that actually hire the local residents in the city,” added Binay, who had been Makati mayor since 2016.