“This recent development serves as irrefutable proof that the people's collective power can shake even the Senate,” said Mody Floranda, national president of jeepney drivers group Piston.
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Buying a P2.4-million minibus is definitely not an option for Papa; his jeeps' income are just enough to sustain the family's daily needs. "Saan ako kukuha ng pera? Uutang? Maintenance pa lang niyan, lugi na ako," he says. Even so, no bank would provide him such loan at his age.
"A just transition to jeepney modernization entails putting critical infrastructure in place and empowering small cooperatives while developing renewable energy sources."
As more cooperatives registered to meet the program's final extended deadline of March 2023, implementation barriers and shortcomings hampered momentum and mirrored the reasons for the program's reluctance among the most affected stakeholders, the jeepney drivers.
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“Public transport must not fall under big private businesses because it will only be a milking cow for them.”
“Whatever twaddle they claim, the current jeepney operators will not be able to survive the fleet management and consolidation ordered in the Omnibus Franchising Guidelines.”
The apprehensions and the stiff fines have prompted operators to temporarily sideline their jeepneys, resulting in reduced number of jeepneys plying the streets thereby creating more difficulties for commuters.
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“The police wanted to make a statement and terrorize the people especially those critical of government programs such as the bogus jeepney modernization.”
From the transport groups’ gathering in Welcome Rotonda up to the area near UST and on to Morayta going to Mendiola Bridge (Chino Roces), the protesters were repeatedly confronted by policemen, Land Transportation Office (LTO) and Metro Manila Development Authority personnel.
“We welcome and appreciate the effort of Sen. Grace Poe. That’s what we want to hear from the government.”
The selling price of the new jeepneys the government wanted the operators to purchase ranged from P1.5 million to P1.6 million ($27,840 to $31.82). Under a seven-year loan package with interest, the final price would be more than P2 million each, making the government-vetted jeepney as costly as a sports utility vehicle.
“What is not being explained fully to the public is the component of corporate takeover and imminent threat of fare hikes in the government's so-called jeepney modernization program.”
"We plan the protests to be participated in not just by transport groups but by various sectors, too, because commuters stand to pay the higher costs of this fake jeepney modernization.”
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