Jeepney drivers and operators set up banners as they hold a transport strike along the Roxas Boulevard Service Road near the corner of EDSA in Pasay on April 29, 2024. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:900px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/172680197104120240429-transport-strike-baclaran-JC-6168.jpg" style="width:900px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">Jeepney drivers and operators set up banners as they hold a transport strike along the Roxas Boulevard Service Road near the corner of EDSA in Pasay on April 29, 2024. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</span> </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MANILA – Transport group Piston said Friday it would hold another strike from September 23 to 24 to oppose the Public Transport Modernization Program (PTMP).</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Piston said the strike would involve the transport group Manibela and make the following demands. </span></div><div><br/></div><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Junking of the PTMP</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cancellation of forced franchise consolidation</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Renewal of franchises and registrations for all public utility vehicle (PUV) operators, including those who choose not to consolidate</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Zero budget for PUV phaseout programs, with funding redirected towards the rehabilitation of traditional jeepneys and subsidies for local industries</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Allowing those who entered franchise consolidation to withdraw</span></li></ul><div><br/></div><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/2024/8/21/budget-chief-jeepney-modernization-not-included-in-dotr-s-priority-projects-for-2025-2314">Budget chief: Jeepney modernization not on DOTr’s 2025 priority list</a><br/><br/><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in August </span><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/8/7/marcos-shuns-fresh-call-to-suspend-puv-modernization-program-1053"></a><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/8/7/marcos-shuns-fresh-call-to-suspend-puv-modernization-program-1053">rejected the call of 22 senators to suspend the program</a></span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> due to supposedly insufficient information drive on the PTMP and the financial burden on drivers and operators to procure modern jeepneys. </span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;I disagree with them because sinasabi nila minadali. This has been postponed seven times, the modernization has been postponed for seven times,&quot; Marcos previously said. </span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">He added that around 80 percent of operators have complied with the PTMP’s requirement to consolidate into cooperatives for easier processing of bank loans to buy modern jeeps.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/7/31/dotr-insists-no-need-to-suspend-puv-modernization-program-2204">DOTr says with 83% consolidation rate, no need to suspend PUV modernization program</a></span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The government launched the PUV modernization program in 2017. There have been multiple delays in its implementation due to protests and COVID-19.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Drivers opposed to the plan argue that buying a new vehicle will bury them in debt and they will not be able to earn enough money to repay their loans and make a living.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/2024/8/13/financing-will-make-or-break-puv-modernization-says-senator-1656">Financing will make or break PUV modernization, says senator</a></span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">While jeepneys now vie with buses, vans and motorbikes for passengers, they are still a common sight and sound in the country.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Often brightly painted and with an exhaust that sounds like a trumpet, jeepneys cost passengers as little as P13 to ride and their second-hand diesel truck engines are easy to fix.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The modern mini-buses the government would like to replace them with are more high-tech, with European emission standard engines or electric motors, WiFi, CCTV and air-conditioning.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/4/26/end-of-the-road-philippine-jeepneys-face-uncertain-future-1201">End of the road? Philippine jeepneys face uncertain future</a></span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><strong>– With a report from Agence France-Presse  </strong></span></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>Transport group Piston said Friday it would hold another strike from September 23 to 24 to oppose the Public Transport Modernization Program (PTMP).</p>

Transport group Piston said Friday it would hold another strike from September 23 to 24 to oppose the Public Transport Modernization Program (PTMP).

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