Tag: Public Transport

Dismantling of the EDSA busway would have been an astounding injustice

February 9, 2025 benign0 9 Comments

It is laughable how, at a time when the decades-long insanity of car-centric design of urban spaces is finally losing steam across much of the sane world, some moron chucked another quintessentially-Filipino brainwave to have the EDSA bus lane removed. The lane on the famously clogged highway blocked for exclusive use by public buses was…

Development, Government

The Philippines cannot progress without an intelligent civil service

June 17, 2024 benign0 13 Comments

Nothing is more confronting than statistical facts. Today’s Inquirer op-ed, “Dismal passing rate”, paints a sobering picture of the Philippines’ brains trust — perhaps an oxymoronic term to use considering that it is anything but. The Inquirer Editor in essence issues an indictment on the ability of the Philippines to sustainably implement good governance and,…

Development, Education

Jeepney “modernisation” (or stopping it) is Filipinos’ top New Year’s resolution

December 30, 2023 benign0 60 Comments

Filipinos are ending the year — and starting a new one (duh!) — debating over a really big issue: jeepneys. What else, right? The jeepney after all is the quintessential Pinoy cultural icon. Why shouldn’t it be? It’s a perverted version of one of America’s greatest engineering achievements. Owing to their world-renowned Reverse Midas Touch…

Culture

House Speaker Martin Romualdez is the new Mar Roxas

November 29, 2023November 29, 2023 benign0 5 Comments

What else do you call what House Speaker Martin Romualdez is doing touring the palengkes, schmoozing with the little people, and personally doling out food scraps, all before the cameras? Certainly there is something better a Speaker of the House of Representatives could do with official time paid for by Filipino taxpayers. NEWS UPDATE: House…

Media, Politics

Yet another anti-jeepney article: How Manila’s iconic Tranvia system was relegated to a mere historical footnote by Filipino “activists”

November 21, 2023November 21, 2023 benign0 10 Comments

Indeed. We’ve written so many of them already, and yet here I am writing yet another one. To be fair, writing anti-jeepney articles is one of the easiest things. For some background on our proud tradition of anti-jeepney, check out this little animated GIF… This animated GIF was hand-crafted by Yours Truly way back in…

Development, History

Atenean and “jeepney driver’s daughter” Reycel Hyacenth N. Bendańa appeals to emotion to push support for jeepney drivers’ strike

March 6, 2023 Ramon Ortoll 3 Comments

Our Signal group was having discussions about the looming jeepney strike and the talk eventually reached the point that my economist friend proposed that they cancel all the franchises and award them to private groups who can provide the better, if not the best service. He’s definitely on to something. Part of the reason why…

Civics, Education, Society

Don’t you just HATE jeepneys?

March 5, 2023 benign0 5 Comments

Recent activities being organised by communist front organisations further exhibit the utter hypocrisy of Filipino “activists”. Whilst these bozos claim to be on the side of the masa, they “fight” on the side of the very community and industry that makes the lives of ordinary working Filipinos a living hell. Jeepneys represent everything that is…

Culture, Development

Concerns of commuting public IGNORED as “activists” paint jeepney drivers as “victims”

March 4, 2023 Ramon Ortoll 3 Comments

I still can’t figure out how millennials like Inquirer columnist Anna Cristina Tuazon think and it’s unlikely I will ever in what time I have left. In her piece “Jeepney operators strike back”, Tuazon writes of the so called plight of the jeepney drivers facing the forces of modernisation; how their “fight” is “not mere…

Development, Lifestyle, Society