PHILIPPINE senators have filed a resolution that seeks to suspend the government’s jeepney modernization program to avoid jeopardizing the livelihood of jeepney drivers and operators. “There is an ...

The consolidation of individual PUV franchises into cooperatives or corporations is the initial stage of the modernization program. A modern jeepney unit costs over P2 million, an amount that even ...

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 ...

A GROUP of jeepney drivers and operators filed a petition before the Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday, seeking to declare null and void the department order and circulars implementing the Public ...

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 ...

About a month ago, schools, employers, commuters alike braced for having no way of getting to their workplaces and classrooms as jeepney drivers ... under the 2017 modernization plan.

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 ...

This mess plaguing the government’s jeepney modernization program is expected. The government’s top-down approach means the jeepney drivers were hardly consulted. It also seems the project was ...

Six years have passed since the Philippines transportation department launched the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program ... including the iconic jeepney, in line with global standards.

Some transport groups begin a week-long strike protesting the jeepney modernization program MANILA, Philippines – A number of transport groups are staging a strike on Monday, March 6 ...