Jeepney phaseout
DOTr doesn’t want to admit that jeepney fare hikes are coming
January 7, 2024
COMMENTARY
There is much to improve in making public mass transport safer, cleaner and more convenient but ‘modernization’ by making transport profitable for private capital is the wrong direction.
IBON: Forced franchise consolidation will distress thousands of drivers and strand millions of commuters
December 13, 2023
Marcos Jr administration’s refusal to extend the franchise consolidation deadline reveals how callous it is to ordinary Filipinos – the livelihoods of tens of thousands of public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers and operators will be disrupted and millions of people will have an even harder time commuting.
Laban ng tsuper, komyuter at bayan sa huling buwan ng taon
December 12, 2023
Kahit sabihing layunin ng PUV Modernization Program na paunlarin ang sistema ng pampublikong transportasyon sa Pilipinas, tila hindi nagtutugma ang mga ‘solusyon’ ng gobyerno na nakasaad dito, bagkus ay nagdadala ito ng marami pang problema at maaring maging sanhi ng mas matindi pang krisis sa bansa.
Modernisasyon para kanino?
November 22, 2023
Nasa pangatlong araw na ang malawakang welga ng mga drayber at opereytor ng dyip para tutulan ang programa ng pamahalaan na modernisasyon ng transportasyon at jeepney phaseout. Sa kabila ng kawastuhan at saklaw ng welga, ang patuloy na naratibo ng Department of Transportation: Makasarili ang mga nagwewelga sa pagpigil ng modernisasyon samantalang ikauunlad naman ito ng sektor, ng mga kapwa nila drayber at opereytor, at ng mga pasahero.
Part 2: The anomaly of transport modernization
June 27, 2020
FEATURES
The Duterte government can address the transport crisis in the time of COVID-19 and in fact can look at the pandemic as an opportunity to overhaul the system. The health protocols may be followed indeed if only the government recognizes and addresses the transport crisis in a scientific manner.
The anomaly of transport modernization
June 26, 2020
FEATURES
If there is anything that COVID-19 has emphasized, it is the fact that the Philippine transport sector is in its worst crisis – a reality that the Duterte administration had repeatedly denied before the pandemic. If the economy has to transition to a genuinely better shape, the government has to address the basic woes of the transport sector. Vice versa, if the mass transport system has to be more efficient, the economy has to be transitioned to a genuinely better one.
Open-air jeepneys safer against COVID-19 than enclosed modernized counterparts
June 21, 2020
NEWS
With only modernized jeepneys allowed to resume operations next week, traditional jeepneys off the road inconveniences commuters and also denies them potentially safer means of transport. The traditional open-air jeepney is likely even safer against COVID-19 than its air-conditioned modernized counterpart.
