MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Whenever there is an election for a new Pope, the sign that a Pontiff has been chosen is the white smoke (as opposed to black) that comes out of the roof of the Sistine Chapel in The Vatican.
This age-old Roman Catholic tradition is being adopted by the Land Transportation Franchise and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) in the Philippines through new implementing rules of the government’s Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program.
Not all old jeepneys will be phased out — only those that emit black smoke from their vehicles. White smoke belchers will be just fine.
No reaction yet from PISTON and other striking transport groups.
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Women’s Partylist Gabriela is taking the high road in opposition to the government’s plan to phase out jeepneys and upgrade them to modernized public utility vehicles. In exchange, it is willing to legislate its own demise.
In a hastily-called press conference Gabriela Representative Arlene Brosas asked her colleagues in Congress to phase out the partlist system, not the jeepneys.
Brosas told The Adobo Chronicles that she will file a bill to abolish the partylist system on Friday.
What a heroic compromise for Gabriela? Mabuhay to all jeepney drivers!
SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles, San Francisco Bureau) – Now it can be told that many transport groups refused to join the scheduled one-week nationwide jeepney strike in the Philippines which started Monday.
But lo and behold, jeepney owners and operators abroad also snubbed the protest action to oppose the government’s Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program.
The Adobo Chronicles has learned that the jeepney strike didn’t happen in New York and San Francisco. They JeepneyGuy in Mesa, Arizona was also busy at work on Monday. And so was Jeepney Jay Tee in Canada.
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