The jeepney modernization program has already been given the seal of approval by no less than President Rodrigo Roa Duterte. What I find dubious, however, is why the I-ACT and LTFRB are singling out jeepneys. Why isn’t I-ACT and LTFRB running after smoke- belching and “colorum” buses as well? I recall that more than seven years ago, the LTFRB vowed to conduct an inventory of all public utility buses currently plying EDSA as part of a combined inter-agency drive against colorum buses. At the time, the LTFRB estimated that there were at least 13,000 colorum buses running on major Metro Manila roads, with “around one in five buses plying routes in Metro Manila still unaccounted for and may be running their routes without the proper franchises.”A special nationwide audit of public utility buses by LTFRB was announced in 2013.

Source: Manila Times January 29, 2018 16:30 UTC