A Future for Jeepneys (What do you think?)

[drey]

A recent study published in a Metro Manila newspaper compared the fuel use of a 16-passenger jeepney to a 54-passenger air-conditioned bus and found that the fuel consumption for both was the same.

SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeepney

This is sad. I know that Jeepneys are flooding the streets right now and if the government might bring the Jeepney transport in to halt, there will be a crisis with the family who depends on it.

And if there is no control, traffic would increase and pollution will increase as well. Much worse, global warming.
What do you think should be the solution for this? We cant let our city become more polluted and our fellowmen starve.

hmmm... ano kaya future ng mga Jeepneys?

[badkuk]

way back in HS, someone offered this solution: phase out all jeepneys, replace them with minibuses. the two drivers could then take turns being driver/conductor.

i also read this article recently about LPG-powered jeeps. it came as quite a surprise -- akala ko LPG is for gas cars exclusively

[drey]

that would make sense... it can bring down half of the Jeepney population...

[Syuryuken]

Dapat naman kasi limitado lang ang ibinibigay na prangkisa para hindi over crowded ang mga jeepneys sa mga kalsada natin mas malaki pa ang kita nila hindi yung takbo ng takbo kahit walang pasahero.

[boybi]

Limited naman ang jeepney franchise, marami lang talaga colorum.

[bender]

I don't understand why we can have the system being used in Hongkong where minibuses and coasters are being used for short trips. Here, we have simply too many jeeps.
I think that they should reduce limit the use of jeeps for short routes and leave the long routes for buses.

[Syuryuken]

Limited naman ang jeepney franchise, marami lang talaga colorum.

Ayun hindi ko naisip mga colorum na yan mas madami pa kesa sa mga may franchise.

[boybi]

Limited naman ang jeepney franchise, marami lang talaga colorum.

[heightdeprived]

Dapat naman kasi limitado lang ang ibinibigay na prangkisa para hindi over crowded ang mga jeepneys sa mga kalsada natin mas malaki pa ang kita nila hindi yung takbo ng takbo kahit walang pasahero.

it's limited, but otherwise if the price is right,

[ghosthunter]

i also read this article recently about LPG-powered jeeps. it came as quite a surprise -- akala ko LPG is for gas cars exclusively

You can use LPG in diesel engines but you have to inject some diesel with LPG at the same time for the engine to run.

[GTi]

They should at least use cleaner and more fuel efficient engines not only for social responsibility but also for their own good as well. Tingnan naman natin, many reports say jeepneys have a similar fuel consumption as a passenger bus which has more than twice the passenger capacity and an engine more than twice the displacement. Paano sila kikita niyan? Jeepneys with 4 cylinder truck engines consume more fuel than gas guzzling V6 or even V8 engines? Gaano ka dilapidated kaya yan... And then they could probably do more aerodynamic designs, especially for highway going jeepneys. A departure from the overly boxy, wind-resisting shape would be good for fuel efficiency as well.

[uls]

kahit ano redesign jeepney parin yan

number one cause of traffic

third world public transport driven by stupid jologs

ang dapat dyan phaseout hindi redesign

[Mguy]

Fastest solution would be replacing 4 jeepneys with a bus. Consider the picture below:




Just think for 60 people, it takes 4 jeepneys to transport them (15 people per jeepney). Bus takes less space on the road so its just a matter of replacing them.

[uls]

^^

exactly

dapat mawala ang jeepney. kung gusto talaga ng gobyerno ma-solve ang traffic problem i-phaseout ang jeepney

[jedi]

bago magphase out... dapat may strong solution muna and alternative... yung mga bus hindi pwede s mga roads na pinapasukan ng jeep... mga tricycle di pwede sa mga main roads. walang problema mawala jeeps sa major roads kaya lang sa mga maliliit na kalsada... the usual routes ng jeepney.

[Mguy]

bago magphase out... dapat may strong solution muna and alternative... yung mga bus hindi pwede s mga roads na pinapasukan ng jeep... mga tricycle di pwede sa mga main roads. walang problema mawala jeeps sa major roads kaya lang sa mga maliliit na kalsada... the usual routes ng jeepney.

True. Plus the political will to implement this. The reason di matanggal yan ay mga botante rin mga yan. Plus if you propose to them the alternative, agad reklamo kaagad yan. Karamihan sa kanila ay makikitid ng pala-isipan. Hihiritan ka kaagad na paano sila makaka-kain sa kinakabukasan kapag wala na ang jeepney.

[Mguy]

double post

[uls]

para sa mga jeepney driver there's no such thing as off limits na kalye

jologs mga jeepney driver. para sa kanila walang batas batas.

[renzo_d10]

At kapag nabangga ka nila, ikaw pa dapat maawa at hayaan nalang sila.

[jedi]

kaya mahirap bumuntot sa mga jeepney... walang signal lights karamihan.. pag nakabangga kakamutan ka lang ng ulo...

but the real question is... ano nga ba talaga alternative sa mga jeepney?