The biggest reason for the resistance to the jeepney modernization program has remained unchanged: the price of the new versions. A traditional jeepney costs from P600,000 to P700,000. The price ...

This development has been part of the government’s effort to modernize the jeepney sector. Under the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization ... on the government to act on the need to modernize ...

The group was referring to the government’s move to push through with its jeepney modernization act. “We have a heartless government on hearts’ day. It wants to deprive small people like ...

But the spending doesn’t stop with buying the modern jeepneys. A 2021 study published in the Philippine Transportation Journal, regarding the piloting of jeepney modernization in General Santos ...

So far, Guadiz said that about 75% of jeepney operators have already consolidated into cooperatives, which is among the first steps in the modernization program. Meanwhile, the equity subsidies ...

ONCE again, Filipinos, particularly those living in and around Metro Manila, have been inconvenienced this week by transport groups staging work stoppages in protest of the government's efforts to ...

Since “pushing” recalcitrant jeepney operators toward modernization has, for the most part, failed, the administration should consider “pulling” them toward this goal by making owning and operating ...

MY first piece for this column was about the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP), more popularly known as the jeepney modernization. I emphasized the need for good transition ...

In an interview with Japan Times, Mody Floranda, the leader of the jeepney driver association Piston, said the modernization program would push small-time Filipino jeepney operators into debt ...

SEN. Grace Poe said the review of the jeepney modernization program is a chance to make it "just, humane and right." Transportation Secretary Vince Dizon ordered the creation of a special review ...

MANILA — The Department of Transportation (DOTr) did not include the Public Transport Modernization Program ... groups ...