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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jeepney fares start at just 20 cents (13 Philippine ... putting pressure instead on drivers to take hefty loans to comply with the modernization plans. The uncertain future of jeepneys began ...

Wala po tayong problema sa jeepney modernization, pero dapat suportahan ng gubyerno ang mga driver,' says PISTON national president Mody Floranda MANILA, Philippines– Jeepney drivers kicked off ...

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

Jeepney drivers on Tuesday called on the Supreme Court (SC) to act on their pending petition against the public transport modernization program (PTMP), months since it was filed in December 2023.

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.

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 ...

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 ...