MANILA, Philippines—The transport strike on Monday was a flop in Metro Manila, the National Capital Regional Police Office said.

“This is the most ignored transport strike in recent years,” Superintendent Rommel Miranda, NCRPO spokesperson said.

He claimed only 10 percent of the thousands of jeepney drivers in the metropolist joined the strike.

Traffic reports showed that the strike stranded some commuters in Navotas, Caloocan, Las Piñas, Parañaque, and Makati.

But Miranda said they did not have to send over trucks as commuters eventually found other ways to get to their destinations. "We didn’t even try sending trucks because there was no bulk of stranded commuters,” Miranda said in a phone interview.

He said there were no reports of violence and harassment.

The Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Transport Operator Nationwide led the strike to protest increases in oil prices and traffic fines.

According to the city information offices of Taguig, Pasay, Muntinlupa, and Las Piñas, there was no significant decline in the number of jeepneys plying the routes.

“There was no paralysis here, but some commuters were stranded not because of the strike but because of the flooding,” Jenny Macrohon, staffer of the city information office in Pasay.

Pinky Fortuno of the Pasay Traffic Management Bureau said three roads in Pasay were impassable between 10:30 a.m. and 12 noon because of the flooding, adding passengers near those areas waited for several hours to flag down a jeepney.

Macrohon said most of the jeepney operators and drivers associations in Pasay City chose to work.

A jeepney driver plying the Pasay route said the drivers’ group to which he belongs did not participate in the strike, saying, “We still need to work" to pay for his debts with a neighborhood sari-sari store.

But passengers in Libertad, Pasay City heading to Makati City had no other choice but to board a tricycle and pay P20 each as of 1 p.m. because the Makati Jeepney Operators and Drivers Association joined the strike.

In Parañaque City, city information officer Lloyd Palconan said the city government suspended work at the city hall and ordered its employees to go home around 3 p.m.

He said 90 percent of the jeepneys in the city joined the transport strike, effectively paralyzing major routes.

Palconan said many commuters along Sucat Road were either seen walking or taking tricycles.

The city government provided two clean dump trucks and a bus to fetch them from Sucat and drop them at the Light Railway Transit station in Baclaran, he said.