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...
A number of transportation coalition groups and tricycle operators urged President Marcos to stop the plan to allow more motorcycle taxis in Metro Manila, saying this would adversely affect the already meager income of existing operators and riders. The appeal came amid the ongoing pilot study...
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...
The decision of President Marcos not to extend the consolidation of public utility vehicles (PUVs) was supported by the "majority" of PUV operators, a transport official said. In a statement released by the Presidential Communications Office (PCO), Office of Transport Cooperatives (OTC) Chairman...
TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan – Police Regional Office 2 Director Police Brig. Gen. Christopher C. Birung inspected bus and van terminals here on Saturday to ensure the safety of the people going home this Christmas. BIRUNG talks to a passenger in a transport terminal in Tuguegarao City....
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...
