With the easing of the National Capital Region to Alert Level 1, a bane of the pre-pandemic normal is back: heavy traffic. The situation has become such that the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority is now considering the full return of the number coding scheme, currently being implemented only during rush hour. The traffic jams are back even before in-person classes resume at all levels in all schools in the NCR, and even before all those who have been working from home for most of the past two years return to their offices. As in the pre-pandemic period, among the thoroughfares with the…