This probably made Thursday seem like Monday to them.
“On Thursday, June 19, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) said that some 1,200 commuters, mostly in Quezon City, were left stranded by the strike staged by various transport groups to protest the implementation of higher fines for operators of “colorum” public utility vehicles,” reports Mike Frialde on Philstar.com.
According to MMDA operations chief Emerson Carlos, most of those stranded were commuters along Commonwealth Avenue and in Balintawak.
The MMDA had dispatched 17 trucks to ferry those stranded for free. The MMDA trucks were deployed between 630am and 1pm.
The report noted that “the protest caravan of the protesting groups, composed of about 100 vehicles, also blocked one lane of the East Avenue leading to the offices of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) and the Land Transportation and Franchising Regulatory Board (LTFRB) and one lane of Ortigas Avenue leading to the office of the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC).”
The MMDA deployed some 500 traffic enforcers to deal with the effects of the transport strike.
