THE jeepney strike that kicked off this week drove home the point that needed to be made about the Department of Transportation’s (DOTr) proposed jeepney modernization program. On the contrary: it is a modernization program that will phase out the jeepney as we know it. I believe in the basis for the jeepney modernization program. The financial requirements of this modernization program will be difficult to fulfill for a majority of jeepney drivers and operators, if at all. And if this jeepney modernization program pushes through, it will prove only one thing: that the Liberal Party’s anti-people policies are alive and kicking within Duterte’s government.

Source: Manila Times February 08, 2017 16:18 UTC