Transport groups: All systems go for Metro strike on March 11

[Monseratto]

Gulo na naman...I guess this idiot doesn't know that rising oil prices is a worldwide problem.

Various transport groups on Friday announced that they are "all systems go" for the Metro Manila-wide strike scheduled on March 11 to protest the escalating cost of petroleum products and the lack of political will on the part of the government to come up with a single ticketing system.

The various, conflicting and competing traffic citation tickets being imposed on poor public transport drivers both by the national and local governments is bleeding the drivers of their already dwindling income brought about by high oil prices due to the abusive cartel pricing of the big three oil firms in connivance with the Arroyo government through stubborn its refusal to regulate the local oil prices and industry and its refusal to lift the 12% EVAT on oil products," said George San Mateo, secretary general of the group Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Operator Nationwide (PISTON).

San Mateo blamed the Arroyo government for its silence and lack of political will to rein in the proliferation and abuse of LGU's own traffic citation tickets.

"The LGU's learned the tricks-of-the-trade of using government services such as traffic enforcement from the Arroyo administration's lateral attrition law of converting the entire government bureaucracy for money-making and revenue-generation purposes. All these led to wide-spread corruption from the national government level down to the local government. This is the result of bureaucrat-capitalism which is the use of government power like a business enterprise with the sole purpose of appropriating private profit for some small groups and individuals," San Mateo explained.

[shadow]

hinde magulo yan, sarap nga eh, walang traffic!!! woohoooo teka lang lifted kaya ang odd-even scheme?

zoom......zoom.....zoom.....

[dx8976]

havent noticed how much gas prices are now (i hear low 40s?), but comparatively it's around 39/liter in thailand (e10) http://www.eppo.go.th/retail_prices.html and if computation is correct around 38/liter in the US for 95 ron (* 3.39/gallon).

if the price ratio for diesel is similar then they may have something to complain about.

[tidus1203]

Good for us who have cars, bad for those who commute. Sana gawing regular holiday yung Tuesday

[Jun aka Pekto]

OT

havent noticed how much gas prices are now (i hear low 40s?), but comparatively it's around 39/liter in thailand (e10) http://www.eppo.go.th/retail_prices.html and if computation is correct around 38/liter in the US for 95 ron (* 3.39/gallon).

We still use unleaded (87) which is currently $2.90/gal ~ P31.3/L

[fourtheboys96]

nauunawaan ko yung sa ticketing system. bakit naman kasi kada munisipyo at syudad eh may sarisariling sistema. ndi ba pwede governed ito ng isang unified system?

[altec]

these striking people are just taking advantage of the ongoing political turmoil. If they keep on complaining about rising oil prices, maybe those sarao jeeps with all those metal horse attachments on their hood should replace them with real horses, so that there is no fuel, just hay and oats for the horse.

[shadow]

nauunawaan ko yung sa ticketing system. bakit naman kasi kada munisipyo at syudad eh may sarisariling sistema. ndi ba pwede governed ito ng isang unified system?

bec cities, municipalities have mayors and egos that comes with it...in fact that was the reason why MMDA was created to integrate lahat ng cities, eh kaso kung yun odd even scheme, meron sumusonod, meron hinde....and I think yun money, ayaw siguro ng mga mayors na meron kahati sa mga kikitain na violation....

kung si bayani Fernando, tigasin wala rin magawa kila binay eh, tayo pa...hehehehe

[fast lane]

mga sir tanong lang may balita na po kung lifted na ung coding bukas?

[badsekktor]

oo nga, lifted ba yun color coding? langya coding pa ko bukas eh ang dami kong lakad!

anyway, hanggang maraming nahihirapan, lalong dadami magrereklamo. tataas crime rate, etc. hindi na mahalaga kung tama o mali sila o kung nasa katwiran ba o wala.