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Due to the fact that we live in Ateneo de Manila, which is on Katipunan Avenue, there is heavy traffic every day. Heavy traffic in the Philippines can not be compared with heavy traffic in Germany. Not only that the traffic rules are sometimes not very visible, but there is such a high amount of cars on the street that traffic jams are the rule not the exception.
\nTo reach your destination with public transportation, as some people in the offices do, you have many opportunities to do so. But you have to say that people here sometimes have to get up at 5 a.m. to be at work at 8 a.m. when they ride public transportations, because of the traffic even when it would be a 15 minutes ride without traffic.
\nFirst, there is the LRT which is comparable with normal trains, so that there are stations for example one on Katipunan which drives in two directions. If you arrive in other areas for instance in Cubao, there are more trains you can take to reach more destinations. Compared to german prices, the LRT is way cheaper. You have to pay around 25 PHP (converted not even 50 ct at the moment) to go to the final destination. Upside of the LRT is the air condition in the trains, even if the effect of it is narrowed by the high quantity of people in it, and the speed, because there is no traffic on the rail tracks.
\nAnother opportunity for people who do not fear the mixture of the heat outside and body heat of 20 people around you, there are jeepneys as well. The typical and popular transportation for the Philippines is again very cheap, so that you will pay 7 PHP for the shortest distance until 17 PHP if you really ride it around 1 hour. At the front glass pane they usually have a sign with their destination on it like \u2018\u2019fairview\u2019\u2019, \u2018\u2019LITEX\u2019\u2019 or \u2018\u2019UP\u2019\u2019, so you approximately know where they go. They don\u2019t have exact stations or stops. Consequently, to enter a jeepney, you just have to lift your arm and they will stop. In the jeepney your payment will be consigned across it to the driver and if you want to leave, you just scream that you want to go out. Since you can not look the timetable or anything else up in the internet, foreigners are having a hard time to know where to go with which jeepney, therefore it would be necessary to drive the whole route with a Filipio once to know where to go out and enter.<\/p>\n
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To reach a short distance destination, one can also use motorized tricycles, in which \u2013 surprisingly \u2013 5 or 6 passengers fit. By reason they always have their specific areas you can not use it like a cab. Of course you can say your destination, but if it is outside of their district they will not bring you there. For tall people like me, riding with 5 persons is sometimes uncomfortable since you do not have any space for your legs, but this kind of transportation is cheap (depending on your destination and if they want to take advantage of foreigners between 8 \u2013 50 PHP) and relatively fast as well, because the small tricycles are having a better chance in a traffic jam drive ahead.<\/p>\n
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A bit more comfortable are the buses with air condition and around 20 PHP or more for one ride. Of course they do not have stations as well and do not drive in the outer districts but in the huge roads like Katipunan or Commonwealth. Pretty similar to this, there are vans \u2013 a mixture of cab and bus \u2013 which one can use. As well as the others, they do not have stations and just drive the same route over and over again.
\nIf people want to spend more money on more comfortable transportation, there is the opportunity to take a cab – which is the most expensive one \u2013 or to take an uber or grab, which is not that expensive. The prices for cabs in general are still not that expensive like they are in Germany, but in comparison to other public transportations it is expensive nevertheless.
\nUnfortunately, the air pollution especially in tight populated areas is extremely high, because of the huge amount of cars and old facilities of the public transportations like jeepneys. However there are rudiments of sustainability seen in the city. For example the \u2018\u2019Comet\u2019\u2019, which is an electric jeep and a first step to a sustainable development.<\/p>\n
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In conclusion, on the Philippines, more precisely in Manila, there are way more opportunities of public transportation than there are in Germany. Also in comparison it is much cheaper to reach your destination here, even if it is most of the times not that comfortable. This is mostly reasoned by the heavy traffic and the climate, which makes the long time sitting in public transportation even more exhausting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
public transportation in the philippines Due to the fact that we live in Ateneo de Manila, which is on Katipunan Avenue, there is heavy traffic every day. Heavy traffic in the Philippines can not be compared with heavy traffic in Germany. Not only that the traffic rules are sometimes not very visible, but there is … Monatsbericht November von Corinna<\/span> weiterlesen