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But for most of the country's commuters, such facilities remain a rarity. Across cities and municipalities, millions of Filipinos continue to wait under scorching sun or heavy rain, often along unsafe and unlit roadsides. Despite their essential role in ensuring orderly, comfortable, and secure public transport operations, PUV stops and terminals remain among the least funded components of our national transport system.

Department of Transportation (DOTr) issued a Notice to Explain to the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) regarding the lack of bus supply along Commonwealth Avenue. But this “scolding” memo reveals deeper cracks in how Philippine transport governance actually works. From the basic methods by which the LTFRB and DOTr determine the planning of the number of public transport vehicles to operate on the routes, to corridor specific transport governance a

SafeTravelPH , a multidisciplinary non-government organization eager to explore and help solve transportation issues through open-data...