Police in Central Luzon have deployed patrol cars to fetch commuters, who would get stranded in case some PUVs join the nationwide transport strike that started on March 6. Read this story for live updates.
To protest the impending jeepney phaseout under the government’s public utility vehicle 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.
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.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.
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.
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