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Tuesday, February 28, 2017
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CEBU City – A transport strike staged by drivers and operators on Monday to protest the planned phaseout of 15-year-old passenger jeepneys failed to paralyze public transportation in Metro Cebu, an official said.
The city governments of Mandaue and Cebu deployed buses to ferry passengers stranded by the strike staged by the Pinag-isang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operators Nationwide (Piston) Cebu chapter.
Piston, which claimed to have 700 members in Cebu, including some 200 tricycle drivers in Mandaue City, said their members crippled public transportation in Mandaue by 60 percent and in Cebu City by 30 percent.
Abet Yniza of Piston-Mandaue chapter said tricycle drivers plying routes in barangays Umapad, Alang-Alang, Paknaan, and Labogon joined the strike.
But Felix Suico of the Mandaue City government’s command center said only 30 percent of the city’s public transportation joined the strike.
Councilor Dave Tumulak also stressed the strike failed to cripple Cebu City’s public transport system.
Heavy traffic was reported on Gen. Maxilom Avenue and other main thoroughfares.
Suico said the Mandaue City government authorized the deployment of three Ceres buses to ferry stranded passengers. Meanwhile Tumulak said the Cebu City government sent out six city-owned buses.
Earlier the city governments of Mandaue and Talisay ordered the suspension of classes in anticipation of the transport strike.
The Cebu City government has not officially suspended classes, but some schools and universities suspended classes on their own. (PNA)
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