Jeepney

Cebu jeepneys to stop plying routes Monday to protest phaseout program

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Students, workers and other commuters here have been warned to prepare for the transport holiday dubbed as the “National Day of Protest,”  which will be participated in by some transport groups in Cebu…

LTFRB: No phaseout of old passenger jeeps in 2016

AFTER a group of jeepney drivers went on strike in Taguig City under a self-declared “transport holiday” yesterday, the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) clarified that the mandatory phaseout of passenger jeeps over 15 years…

Transport group to stage Metro-wide strike on Monday, Dec. 7

A national transport group is set to hold a transport holiday in Metro Manila on Monday, December 7, to oppose the policy of the Land Transportation and Franchising Regulatory Board (LTFRB) to phase-out passenger jeepneys which are…

11 hurt as jeepney plunges into Lagusnilad

Eleven people were injured when a wayward passenger jeepney went over the railing and fell into the Lagusnilad underpass in Ermita, Manila, before dawn on Wednesday. The driver, identified only as Arman, fled after the incident and…

Jeepney driver shot in the head by irate pedestrian in Makati

The driver of a passenger jeepney was shot in the head by an angry pedestrian outside a busy mall in Makati City on Thursday afternoon. The victim, Jerick Accad, 35, of Western Bicutan, Taguig City, nearly hit…

Groups back e-vehicles for public transport

Transport leaders have backed the proposal to use electric vehicles (EVs) as a viable replacement for jeepneys under the public transport modernization program, according to the Electric Vehicle Association of the Philippines (Evap). In a statement, Evap…

Santiago goes after jeepney drivers, riders

It’s time to get tough on the so-called kings of the road and their passengers. Citing the public’s frustration over the lack of discipline among public utility jeepney drivers and riders, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago has proposed that…

28 jeepney riders hurt on Coastal

THE POLICE are looking for the driver of a passenger jeepney who figured in a three-vehicle smashup that left at least 28 people injured on Coastal Road in Las Piñas City Tuesday afternoon. Still unidentified at press…

Don Bosco students build e-jeepney, name it ‘Servant One’

WHAT?! Building an electric vehicle from “junk”? That was exactly what five college students from Don Bosco Technical College in Mandaluyong City did in making an electric jeepney, which they hope to see plying the country’s roads…

Jeepney runs over student in Manila (video)

Motioncars has received a video clip reportedly showing CCTV footage of a car accident in Manila. The video, marked March 13, 2015 16:28, shows a jeepney hitting and running over a boy who had been waiting on…

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