MANILA, Philippines — Traditional jeepneys are not allowed to operate while buses should operate under 50 percent capacity in general community quarantine (GCQ) areas, as per the recommendation of the government’s task force, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año…
SOME jeepney drivers will not be plying their routes in Caloocan, Pasig and Montalban, as well as Quiapo in Manila and Sucat in Parañaque, on Monday, July 15. This as the Alliance of Concerned Transport Organization (ACTO)…
Only a small fraction of jeepney operators nationwide — accounting for only around 1,000 vehicles — have so far switched to environment-friendly models two years after the government launched its public utility vehicle (PUV) modernization program, a…
Though remaining supportive of the government’s public utility vehicle modernization program, a group of transport cooperatives has called on the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to regulate the price of the new jeepney units which have been tagged…
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) is not slowing down the PUV (public utility vehicle) program despite doubts aired in Congress over the government’s readiness to overhaul this transport sub-sector mainly by replacing aging vehicles with more environment-friendly…
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) clarified on Wednesday that the implementation of the PUV modernization program scheduled to begin in March 2019 is “a timeline, not a deadline.” DOTr Assistant Secretary for Road Transport Mark De Leon issued this…
Traffic agencies of the government were “working double time” to process the applications of at least 1,000 jeepney drivers to shift to modernized jeepneys, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) said Tuesday. After the launching of the modernized jeepney…
After the Department of Transportation (DOTr) rolled out on Monday the first-ever fleet of “modernized jeepneys” under its Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP), netizens asked: Is it a jeepney or a bus? In a ceremony, DOTr…
Militant transport group Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operator Nationwide (Piston) will mount its fourth strike today against the jeepney modernization program with its leader saying the protests will go on until the government draws up…
According to the latest Road Crash Statistics Report of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority’s Metro Manila Accident Recording and Analysis System, there were 10,163 public utility jeepneys involved in road crashes in 2017. Of the total, nine…
