Palace: PUV operations in Metro Manila ‘normal’ amid transport strike
March 7, 2023 – 12:29PM
The operation of public utility vehicles (PUVs) in Metro Manila has normalized despite the presence of protesters in parts of the metropolis, Malacañang said on Tuesday.
Citing the report of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Tigil Pasada, the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said routes where free rides were made available on Monday, the start of the transport trike, are now under normal operation.
“Routes provided with Libreng Sakay by the task force on Monday, March 6, are now under normal operation, and there were no reports of stranded passengers,” the PCO said.
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Transport group says DOTr reverted P1.5B in subsidies to National Treasury
March 06, 2023 – 6:13PM
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A transport group claimed that the Department of Transportation (DOTr) reverted P1.2 billion to the National Treasury, which was supposed to fund additional subsidies for drivers and operators affected by the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP).
According to 1 United Transport Alliance Koalisyon (1-UTAK) in a recent statement, its chairman Atty. Vigor Mendoza applied for the additional subsidy for the PUVMP in the central office of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) on February 17, 2023.
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Central Luzon cops deploy patrol cars to ferry stranded commuters
March 06, 2023 – 11:30AM
Jeepneys continue to ply the roads of Zambales province on Monday (March 6) despite the planned nationwide strike of major transport groups in the country to protest the public utility vehicle modernization program of the government. (Photo by Joanna Rose Aglibot)
Police in Central Luzon have deployed patrol cars to fetch commuters, who would get stranded in case some public utility vehicles (PUVs) join the nationwide transport strike that started on March 6.
In an advisory on Monday, Brigadier General Jose Hidalgo Jr., director of Police Regional Office 3, said all police units in the region were on standby to augment the transportation to ferry commuters to their destinations.
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Zambales town, university suspend in-person classes due to transport strike
March 06, 2023 – 10:14AM
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The local government of Botolan town in this province suspended in-person lasses at all levels in public and private schools in anticipation of the nationwide transport strike Monday, March 6.
Botolan Mayor Jun Omar Ebdane issued the announcement late Sunday as jeepney drivers and operators in the country threatened to stage a weeklong strike against the government’s public utility vehicle modernization program, particularly the jeepney phaseout.
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Transport groups start weeklong strike to protest jeepney phaseout
March 06, 2023 – 9:30AM
To protest the impending jeepney phaseout under the government’s public utility vehicle (PUV) modernization program, drivers and operators left their PUVs in their garages and instead took up banners to stage a weeklong transport strike starting on Monday, March 6.
Some drivers and operators held a protest in Monumento, Caloocan City, to call for the scrapping of the PUV modernization program, according to the Bayan Muna partylist.
Meanwhile, in photos from the Collegian, the University of the Philippines’ official student publication, different sectors were seen gathered at University Avenue in Quezon City in solidarity with the transport strike.
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Northern Mindanao groups shun transport strike
March 06, 2023 – 6:10AM
The members of two transport cooperative groups in Northern Mindanao will not be taking part in the planned weeklong nationwide transport strike starting Monday, March 6.
“We are not a part of any transport strike. Our member-cooperatives have already made a commitment not to join the strike,” said Luzminda Escobidal, chief executive officer of the Northern Mindanao Federation of Transport Service Cooperative (Nomfedtrasco), said on Sunday
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Sara Duterte calls week-long transport strike ‘communist-inspired, pointless’
March 05, 2023 – 4:29AM
The week-long transport strike set for March 6 is “communist-inspired,” “pointless,” and a “painful interference” in the Department of Education’s efforts to fix the problems in the system.
This was Vice President Sara Duterte’s take on the scheduled transport strike by several groups against the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP), and her response to the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT-Teachers) pledge of support to the said protest.
“Learning recovery is foremost on the agenda of the Department of Education today. It does not include the pointless weeklong transport strike supported by ACT,” said Duterte in a statement.
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70% of Bicol transport groups not joining strike
March 05, 2023 – 2:55PM
About 70 percent of the transport groups in the Bicol region would not be joining the week-long transportation strike, the Regional Cluster Organization on Public Utilities said Sunday, March 5.
Alex Bañares, chairman of Tabaco-Legazpi Transport Cooperative and Tabaco Women’s Transport Service Cooperative and president of the Regional Cluster Organization on Public Utilities in Bicol, said the flow of transportation would not be paralyzed from March 6 to 10 as most of the transport cooperatives in the region announced that they would still operate and serve the riding public.
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Piston to join jeepney strike: Delaying phaseout not enough
March 05, 2023 – 5:38AM
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One of the country’s biggest transport groups has decided to join this week’s strike in Metro Manila and other regions in protest of the government’s public utility vehicle (PUV) modernization program.
Modesto Floranda, president of the Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operators Nationwide (Piston), said on Saturday that an estimated 100,000 drivers and operators from his group will join the weeklong strike beginning on Monday.