Given the looming nationwide transport strike, several universities in Metro Manila announced the suspension of their on-site classes from April 15 to 16. (Manila Bulletin File Photo) The University of the East (UE) confirmed on Sunday, April 14, that all colleges and physical education (PE)...
Photo by Arnold Quizol/MANILA BULLETIN The Manila Police District (MPD) deployed additional personnel to ensure public safety and security during the commencement of transport strike and road restriction on electric tricycles and bicycles, pushcarts, kuligligs and pedicabs on Monday, April...
The Muntinlupa City government is ready to provide “libreng sakay” (free rides) on April 15 and 16 due to the planned nationwide transport strike. It ordered its vehicles to be on standby on April 15 when groups Manibela and Piston (Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operators...
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna – The Police Regional Office 4-A (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon area) is ready for the transport strike declared by two transport groups on Monday, April 15, and Tuesday, April 16. PRO 4-A chief Police Brig. Gen. Paul Kenneth Lucas has directed all police...
Government agencies are now preparing for the scheduled tansport strike by two major transport groups in protest of President Marcos’s decision not to extend the April 30 deadline for consolidation of all public utility vehicle operators to give way to the modernization program. On the part of...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) monitored around 500 rallyists and 151 passenger jeepneys during the conduct of the protest march on Tuesday, Jan. 16, against the implementation of the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP). PNP spokesperson Col. Jean Fajardo said they also...
The national government is ready to respond to any disruption of public transportation on Tuesday, Jan. 16, during the conduct of a transport strike and protest action by transport group Manibela from Quezon City to Manila. But Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman Don Artes...
The National University (NU), on Tuesday, Jan. 16, will modify all classes to online synchronous learning in anticipation of a major transport protest. Photo from NU “Classes for NU Manila shall shift to remote synchronous learning due to the impending transport protest,” the university...
Transport group Manibela will be holding a transport strike on Tuesday, Jan, 16, as part of what it describes as a big protest march from Quezon City to Mendiola in Manila to call for the stop of the implementation of the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP) and the return of the...
Who’s scared of the transport strikes? Certainly not Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Don Artes as he declared that the national government was ready to assist commuters even if transport strikes are held for a year. “We already reached a point that the government can...
The Philippine National Police Public (PNP) has prepared contingency measures to ensure peace order amid the extension of the transport strike to two more weeks in protest of the mandatory consolidation of jeepney drivers and operators into either a cooperative or a corporation. The Dec. 31...
The University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) on Sunday, Dec. 17, said it will extend the conduct of online classes and work-from-home arrangements for the remaining working days of 2023 due to the continuation of the transport strike. University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) On Dec.12, UPD...
