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as a newbie in manila (1 year) and earning so little. ill still book riding apps instead of fighting with our public trabsport. imagine papasok ka palang sa trabaho or school sobrang haggard ka na dahil sa pakikipagsiksikan, tulukan, at habulan makasakay kalang. sobrang humahanga ako sa mga kayang magtiis sa public transport natin. wala akong naiipon sa sahod ko pero atleast i choose convenience. i dont even have drive to work more so commuting. kaya atleast one of which ay maging convenient man lang diba, kaya i always choose to ride riding apps instead of public transport.

I'm booking a cab for my flight around 12mn. I got picked up from my location and the route is not suspicious naman kahit I prefer the alternative route. However, when we got to the terminal nakalimutan pala ni driver pindutin ang 'Start Trip' kanina. He asked kung magkano ang booking earlier sa app around php170+. He proceeded manually calculating my fare. Nagminus sya ng php50 tapos multplied by 2 yung natira. I was charged php300+ for the trip. Bali ang lumabas 170 ang base fare and yung excess ay charged as Toll Fee/Surcharge.

Baka po may nakakaalam kung saan pwedeng sumakay ng pa alabang-zapote kapag galing pa pong Tanza, Cavite. Papunta po kasi kaming Las Piñas ng friend ko, hindi po namin alam san sasakay. Sana po may sumagot.

Sharing our first booking sa green gsm.

In app ng gsm our ride would only cost P330- P376. Pero nung actual ride na; antok na kaming 3 sa ride ung kapatid ko ung kausap at sabeng dumaan sa ibang daan daw para iwas traffic etc scam convo.

Then nakita ko may metered fare na sa screen ni kuya. In the end hindi nasunod ung rate sa app. Almost double binyaran namin at P587.

Sanay kami mag book sa ibang app like indrive/grab joy ride na fixed rate and madadagdagan lang yung fare if may toll gates sa usual route or may add stop overs. Wherein our usual rate sa other apps ay around 340-380 php, minsan 6 seaters pa to.

Sobrang scammy nila? Not sure of lahat ng rides ay per km ang rate ng gsm o sadyang scammer ung driver na nabook namin. If all gsm rate ay per km, then sobrang misinformation at false advertisement nung in app rates nila!

Alarming bc almost double the fare yung binayaran namin. Oo pwedeng 200 lang nadagdag sa actual app price pero at this economy?? Pano kung last money na nung nag book yon, tas may ganong shinenigans pala sa pricings nila.

++The driver was also so talkative at matanong sa personal na buhay like stop. Everyone’s tired at gusto lang mag pahinga at makauwi.

Very bad experience!!

Hello po, how to commute po from balagbag(?) Pasay (sa may malapit po sa PNP Aviation security) papunta ng baclaran church at pag pauwi. Ano pong nakalagay dapat na ruta? hehe sana po masagot salamat po

Yung driver namin sa Green GSM anlakas ng trip. Literal na nakikipag-away sya sa group chat dahil DDS sya at may anti DDS syang nakakaalitan. Eh wala naman talaga akong pake kung anong gusto nyang gawin sa cp nya pero natext talaga sya habang nagmamaneho, hindi man lang hinihintay sa traffic light mag text.

Idk ha pero hit or miss talaga tong green gsm drivers. Hindi consistent yung service nila. Sa palagay ko, kulang sila ng seminar at training.

Irereport ko to. Will attach the pic sa comments kasi I cant attach now Idk why.

Thank you in advance!

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hello po! how to get to mrt north ave from commonwealth po? ano po yung sasakyan?

Hello, tanong ko lang po paano magcommute from Balintawak palengke to Muzon kapag inhabot ng 12am to 3am. Ang alam ko po may van sa palengke papuntang Muzon, hindi ko lang po sure ang operating hours nila. Salamat po in advance.

Instead of the government creating a master plan for mass transit and building the city around it (like they did in Tokyo or Singapore), we allowed private real estate developers to dictate the urban landscape.

Wealthy families and corporations bought up massive plots of land to build exclusive subdivisions and central business districts (Makati, Ortigas, BGC, etc.) post-WWII. They secured the land first. The result? We built heavily gatekept areas for rich, and public transport became an afterthought.

After World War II, Filipinos adopted the "American Dream" model of urban planning which involved massive highways and sprawling suburban subdivisions. The overarching mindset back then was that eventually, everyone would own a car. BUT they did not anticipate the changes in the future.

Instead of investing in trains, our government built avenues and expressways. Railways were never the priority because the vision of progress was owning a car and a garage inside a gated village. By the time urban planners realized we desperately needed a massive train network, the land was already heavily developed and privately owned.

And our absolute biggest bottleneck today is the "right of way" because land privatization came first, the government now has to buy back incredibly expensive real estate just to lay down a single train track.

Whenever the government tries to build a new MRT/LRT line or a subway, the government has to buy the land at current market values. This costs billions of pesos that should have been allocated to the actual construction of the project. Private owners, corporations, and powerful homeowners' associations will aggressively fight the government in court. Temporary Restraining Orders are filed delaying vital projects by years or even decades.

Have you noticed how public roads and transit lines have to snake awkwardly around massive gated villages? Trains and public roads cannot pass through them because they are strictly private property. Famous example is the proposal of LRT/MRT line from Gilmore passing through Greenhills into Ortigas Ave to Pasig, then Taytay. An metro line in that area can decongest traffic in Ortigas Ave. extension but they can't do that because of homeowners privacy and the road is not meant for a railway. No anticipation decades ago.

Because we are trying to force a 21st-century mass transit system into a heavily privatized, car-centric 20th-century layout, we end up with terrible compromises.

This is exactly why our train stations are awkwardly positioned, why our elevated footbridges are ridiculously steep and narrow, and why the Metro Manila Subway is costing us an astronomical amount of money like engineers literally have to dig deep underground just to avoid all the ROW issues on the surface.

TL;DR: Metro Manila is currently paying the price for decades of allowing private developers to build car-centric hubs without a government-led mass transit masterplan. Building trains today is painfully slow and expensive because the government has to fight legal battles and pay premium prices just to reclaim the right of way from private owners.

Hi, ask lang po. Yung carousel bus from PITX nadaan po ba mismo sa may harap ng MetLive? Thank you po!

Magandang araw po!

Ask ko lang po sana kung paano ang proseso ng cutting trip mula Calapan papuntang Cubao, dahil first time ko lang po itong gagawin at medyo nalilito pa po.

Possible po na umalis ako ng Calapan bandang 9:00 PM hanggang 12:00 AM, kaya gusto ko rin pong malaman kung may available pa pong masasakyan sa mga oras na iyon.

May mga tanong lang po sana ako:

1. Mula po sa XentroMall Calapan papuntang Calapan Pier, may masasakyan pa po ba sa ganung oras? May mga bus o ibang pampasaherong sasakyan po ba na dumadaan o nagsasakay doon?

2. Ano po ang buong proseso ng cutting trip mula Calapan Pier hanggang Batangas Port?

3. Pagdating ko po sa Batangas Port, saan po ako sasakay papuntang Cubao?

Pasensya na po kung hanggang cutting trip lang po ang alam kong option. Hindi ko rin po kasi alam kung paano o saan nagbu-book ng direct bus dito sa Calapan. Kung may alam po kayong paraan o maaari ninyo po akong turuan, malaking tulong po iyon.

Maraming salamat po sa sasagot at sa anumang tips o payo na maibibigay ninyo. Malaking tulong po ito sa akin. Ingat po at God bless!

Hello, is there another way of commute po ba aside from smnorth to monumento to malanday? Thank you for answering!

hi, i’m from fairview. gusto ko po sana magcommute thru train, kaso hindi ko alam kung saan pupunta. please give me some ideas. thank you po :)

hello po ask ko lang po ano pong jeep sasakyan ko if galing ako avenida bus terminal and papunta po akong ceu manila?

also what jeep rin po sasakyan ko from ceu manila to avenida?

Thanks in advance po, medyo may idea naman po pero just want to make sure huhu

Would like to know po ano or saan po banda pwede sumakay ng UV from Cainta Junction na pwede ako ibaba sa may Emerald Avenue? I'm from sta lucia po mall po galing and would likely use jeep pa Cainta Junction.

Pwede po or meron kaya Galleria/Corinthian or any na medyo malapit na po sana sa Emerald Avenue.

Thank you!

PS: Second option po if ever LRT/MRT won't do kasi napansin ko po ang haba pa ng lakaran. First time job ko po kasi and ayaw ko lang po ma late. Thank you!

Hi po! How to get to ortigas from greenhills area in San Juan?