{"id":191,"date":"2016-12-01T19:07:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T19:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freiwillige.epectogev.de\/?p=191"},"modified":"2023-05-30T07:17:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T07:17:17","slug":"monatsberich-november-von-franzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freiwillige.epectogev.de\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Monatsberich November von Franzi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Public short-distance traffic in the Philippines<\/strong><\/p>\n

The public short-distance traffic in the Philippines is way different than it is in Germany or in other European countries. Here in Manila you have much more opportunities if you want to use the public transport system. You can take jeepney (or in short just \u201cjeep\u201d), a tricycle, sometimes a bicycle or of course a train, a bus or a cab.<\/p>\n

Jeepneys have been traditional Willys-Jeeps, left by the Americans. Now they are one of the most common and also the cheapest form of public transport. Today the Filipinos rebuilt these trucks on their own but the technology is still is not the best. That’s why they are very noisy and often blamed as one of the major sources of air pollution in big cities. The Jeeps always ride the same route like a bus but they don’t have stops. They pick you up and drop you off wherever you want, along this specific route the jeep uses. If you want to ride one you just have to wait next to the street until a jeep, which goes into the direction you want to go, passes by. (They have small signs which say where they will go.) Then you have to wave the driver and if he thinks that there is room left for another person he will stop and you can climb in. You can pay whenever you want. Just shout \u201cbayad po\u201d which means \u201cpaying\u201d and pass the money to the driver. If you want to get out of the Jeep you have to shout \u201cpara po\u201d which means \u201cstop\u201d and the driver will stop so that you can go off. For Corinna and me the drop off is always the most difficult part because if the jeep is full (and the jeeps are almost every time full) it is so hard to see something trough the little windows, so we are always wondering if we have to go off already.<\/p>\n

Since our fist ride I really admire the jeepney drivers. They have to handle so much things at one time. They have to drive trough Manila’s traffic, have to hear trough all the noises if someone wants to go off or wants to pay. Then they have to take the money and give the change and at the same time they have to have a look if someone on the street is waving them. For this difficult work, the drivers receive 10-40 Cents (6-17 Php) per passenger (depending on how long their ride is). If they own their jeep on their own, then they can keep everything but often they have to pay a daily rent to the person who owns the jeep.<\/p>\n

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A typical Jeepney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The second cheapest form of public transportation are the tricycles (or in short just \u201ctric\u201d). Tricycles are Motorbikes with small cabins next to them, in which passengers can be carried. They work almost like a taxi with the difference that they will not go out of a certain area (or only for a lot of money). Furthermore they are not allowed to use highways because they are to slow. If you want to ride one you can wait next to the street until an empty tric passes by or go to special tricycle terminals, where empty trics wait for passengers. But then the drivers usually wait until the tric is full, which means that there are three persons sitting in the small cabin and one or two are sitting behind the driver.<\/p>\n

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Picture of some trics taken out of one<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In some areas there are also bicycles, which are tricycles with a bike instead of the motorbikes.<\/p>\n

The big cities like Manila of course have also trains buses and cabs. They are pretty similar to the ones we know expect that everything is way cheaper. Last weekend we took a cab for about 20 minutes and paid together only 100 Pesos, which is round 2 \u20ac.<\/p>\n

But what you don’t have here are good side walks. Sometimes there are no side walks at all, so you have to walk along the right side of the street. Often the side walks are blocked by parking cars or street vendors and very often the side walks are in a very bad condition with a lot of bumps and holes. In the beginning I asked myself the question: \u201cWhy does the government here doesn’t invest in building better side walks?\u201d Maybe then people would walk more often, or take their bike and the horrible traffic could be reduced at least a little bit. The answer to this question is very easy. In the Philippines it is to hot to walk or bike outside. The temperature here usually never falls under 25 degrees. You can not go to work or to school by feet if you don’t want to arrive there completely soaked with sweat.<\/p>\n

That and also the steady growing of the population in the cities leads to a lot of heavy traffic, which is a big problem here in Manila. During the rush hour in the morning and in the afternoon there are huge traffic jams every day. Since we arrived we met so many people, who need 1-2 hours to work just because of the traffic jams. That’s why on the one hand it is good that there is a huge variety of public transportation options but on the other hand the jeeps and trics, who always load and unload passengers at the side of the street make this problem even worse, as they then block the vehicles behind them. Another problem with the public transportation is, that even if there are so many public vehicles you can use, they aren’t enough. During the rush hour buses, trains and jeeps are so crowded that you often have to wait for the next one and in the tric terminals there are long queues. This problem causes that wealthy people, who don’t want to lose much time in traffic every day, have own cars with a driver so that they can use the time in traffic for sleeping or working. While having a driver in Germany is something only very very rich people can afford, here it is a lot more common. We met a lot of students, employees and even grad school pupils here in Ateneo, who have their own driver.<\/p>\n

All in all you can say, that traffic in general is a big problem in the Philippines. The huge variety of public short-distance traffic options is a step in the right direction, to reduce the the traffic. But for working on the reduce of greenhouse gas emissions, the country should be more strict with the emissions of their public transportation vehicles (especially the jeeps and trics).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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