I wasn't really much into the loop about this pero nung nakita ko sa news, I was honestly surprised na may Beep Card and meron pa Beeprides. Napa WTF na lang ako.

Dapat nung simula pa lang sinabi na nila na papayag sila kung iisa lang ang gagamitin, which is beepcard for the "other' buses and PUVs. For "our" convenience tapos hindi nila limit to a specific method na "centralized" or iisa lang. Defeating the purpose.

Yung 80php card fee plus load, I sort of understand. May nagsabi na dito about the production cost of the card itself. Ang di ko alam is wala ata itong "card refund fee" like other countries.

The model already exists everywhere else. Hindi man lang kaya gayahin yung guidelines ng government when "regulating" this when it was being hard implemented na due to COVID?

Nung sinabi nila na "FREE" kaagad ito as a reflex dahil sa complaints, part of me already thought mali din ito. But if bibigyan na lang nila ng incentives yung BEEP CARD company mismo to pay them back, I guess it works out in that way between BEEP and government for this part when they start implementing the "FREE" release of how many cards there will be that are FREE. But that doesn't help those that paid for it prior though.

I honestly had hopes for Tugade's management pero he is becoming more and more "reactionary" than visionary. To only "appease" now than stand ground because, as it looks like, there was little to no planning prior to implementation by the concerned agencies. Ika nga, walang usapan sa stakeholders, the company and the consumers/commuters in this case at all even from the beginning.

On the part of the company, malabo nga naman pumalag sila ngayon na nagdeclare government na free dapat yan and "make it free".

Hindi nga dapat gawin gatasan yung public, pero di din naman dapat ginagatasan ng government ang private company din.

I get the intention but still, they had all of 6 months to prepare their plans since kanya kanya sila departments with their focuses on what part of the industries here they cover... pero wala e, on this specific part.

Same goes for what we see with Autosweep and Easytrip FORCED implementation when we all know na hindi nga maayos yung scanners with the RFIDs. Ewan ko lang kung yung new "series" ni Easytrip will be better but that goes the same for this. Medyo sure ako iaatras nila yung deadline and move it next year dahil sa hindi pa din lahat may sticker to remove cashless completely, or dahil limited stocks yung stickers, or sasabihin government to "avoid crowding" we are extending the deadline. Nasa utak ko na maririnig natin ito come november 2020.