Quote Originally Posted by SaberRider View Post
I highly doubt that. Experience has taught us that. Kung transport strike nga lang eh crippled and stranded na yung mga commuters natin, me included. Take note, even during the transport strike eh less than 30% ang mga actual PUV strikers pero ang lakas ng impact nila sa daily lives natin. Oo nga, wala ngang traffic PERO wala rin masakyan. How many transport strikes do we experience within a year? Around half a dozen maybe?!?

A faster turn-around time??? Same thing, charge it to experience. Nung time ng mga transport strikes mabilis nga ang biyahe pero di kaya ng PUV crew ang turnaround, di pa included yung mga shifts nila, morning, mid, night and earl am. Toxic yung mga puv drivers natin, stressed, tired and hence, more accident prone.
Transport strike and orderly reduction are not comparable at all. Your experience is definitely what the strikers wanted to happen, the most inconvenience to the public as possible. With a systematic long term delisting of jeepneys and buses based on a route to route study with the riding public welfare as priority, you might not even feel the difference on a daily basis. At most siguro baka ang mawawalang jeep or bus, eh, mga 1 - 2 percent lang every month.

I understand that a lot of us want an instant solution to problems that resulted from decades of negligence and government incompetence. But what Mr. Suansing is proposing or hopefully actually doing is for gradual reduction of PUV starting with the old, ill maintained, inefficient and polluting units first. I think, he is one of the smarter ones in government who would not go for instant solution for short term results just to get political pogi points, I really hope not.