Quote Originally Posted by theveed
well said chris...

ok lang gumastos mag forward ng useless text worth 20 bucks a day pero sa transpo ayaw hehe.
tama ka diyan! Alien? Alien!

I see 35 as not being too high for people to pay. Consider that the MRT costs justas much as the bus from point to point... when it should cost more, being much faster.

72 is just suicide. Of course, they'd save on maintenance because the trains won't be overloaded all the time. :lol:

Subsidized public transport? I'd rather see them put all the damn buses on EDSA under one franchise. Period.

My favorite bus line going back and forth to Manila from Laguna is De La Rosa. Why? Because they're a relatively big franchise, and they run their buses on a tight schedule. Drivers are not encouraged to squat in place for half an hour, like other buses do, because there's always another bus behind them that will lose out on passengers if they do. The service is quick and efficient, and at least thirty minutes per trip faster than their closest competitor. And they don't lose money, because they time their runs to meet the demands of the passengers.

A single franchise on EDSA, or a centralized conglomerate would mean:
-less buses during off-peak hours.
-no lane-squatting, no jockeying for position and swerving.
-more efficient service, less wasted money on diesel and maintenance.
-less buses, period. The work of twenty buses now plying EDSA could easily be performed by ten buses running on a good schedule.

If other countries can do it, why can't we? We depend more on buses than most! Puwede naman sigurong ibigay yung franchise, tapos centralized yung accounting, at may subsidy para sa mga buses running off-peak trips (only IF they lose money that way).