.50 centavos decrease in Jeepney fares... do you think that is fair?...

I don't know.. I mean, when the price of oil increased, they could easily raise the fare but, now that its decreasing, they have a hard time decreasing it as well.. I just don't get how something as easy as raising the price of the fair can't be applied on decreasing the fare price now that the price of the oil is decreasing.. not to mention that some of the prices in the market are still high.. and I thought that they'd go down too when the price of oil goes down.. Anyway, is the fifty centavo decrease fair? I guess not.. well for me that is.. I mean, why only fifty centavos and not a whole peso or two?

Being a public commuter myself I also find it convenient if they would also rollback their fares too. But I am already happy they made the moved of rolling back their fare prices.

Don’t be shocked dear, thank your lucky starts that there has been some decrease and hence some respite for the commoners. Here in India, the prices of everything shot up with rising global prices. Now that the oil prices have reduced, I am yet to see any reduction in anything apart from edible oil. The most surprising thing is that everybody is to blame for this. When the prices were on the rise, the newspapers had it on front page…now when they are down, it’s no longer a hot news anymore. Similarly, when the prices of other commodities went up, every ministry in the Govt justified it by saying that all commodities have to be transported from place to place and hence increase in oil prices, increased the transportation costs. But now that the oil prices are down, no ministry is ready to decrease the prices of its own commodity by saying that several ‘other’ factors are also responsible for regulating prices and oil alone is not the benchmark. So we consumers are stuck there where we are…for us, the prices always goes up, never comes down. At least in your country, transportation costs (which are a major part of everybody’s monthly budget) will be more manageable now.

I don't think I have ever heard of any kind of rollback in transportation prices here, so although it is not as much of a decrease as you would have liked I am most happy that you got some kind of decrease :-)

its very disgusting really. as if they have a rool back...come to think of it, when they have fare increase- they put a peso-increase in every succeeding kilometers.. but when they have roll back- only .50cents? where do they getting such an idiot computation.. isnt it they were trying to fool us?? Is's only in the philippines...

ha..ha...in my place just yesterday they increased the auto taxi fares .....and these are vehicles used by the common man like your jeepney.......Now I cannot understand what is happening to my government....We were all expecting an announcement from the authorities about decrease in petrol and diesel prices and got a rude shock yesterday when this announcemnet came........I wonder how they will justify this move with elections round the corner........sigh....

it is hard to comment on this one, i guess the real affected people here are those who always ride the jeepney and will have to pay the fare. it is not fair to easily increase it and will not decrease it if the prices go down.. honestly speaking though, prices of the oil is still not stable and it is still increasing and decreasing for some time.. until it stabilizes, we can not say they have to decrease the fares already.

for me it is not fair because the oil price is on rollback already and they are in huge profits already and why give us only 50cents?when they were demanding for fare hike they were not asking for cents only but in whole peso...why now they are giving us cents only?the commuters are the only ones that are always suffering...it is really not fair.

Hello aseretdd, It has been 6 months ago and till now, there is no more good news. I don't understand a thing - the price of petrol has gone down and the cost is quite alright for people who own a car like us. But why the public transports even here, still fighting with the government to get their price increased? I just don't understand that part...

I think the 50 centavos rollback is not that fair or enough. The prices of the oil have been decreasing constantly since these past several months. In addition, we will still be expecting a rollback for this upcoming month. If possible, they should have reduced it to 1 to 1.50, so that all commuters will be able to enjoy the oil price rollbacks. :-)

I have to agree with you, that there should be fare roll back too in the process, BUT, if they insist that there should not be, I have to demand that the next time an oil increase happens, the commuters should be shield from an increase in fare. The jeepney drivers and operators have gained a lot in the oil price roll back.

i think they should have atleast P1 decrease. it's unfair for the commuters to suffer when actually, there had been a P5 rollback.

practically as a commuter i couldn't agree with that decision a 50 cents decrease it should be at least 1 peso would be enough for us. but still we cannot argue about that, they are the one who decide. the rollback of oil price would be favor to the motorist but not to some commuters, perhaps. not fair.

I'm having mixed opinions on this issue. But I think, as a commuter, it would be more helpful if the rollback on the jeepney fare is always proportional to the decrease in oil prices. If we're talking about fairness, then that one is technically fair. We are all making a living in an honest way and despite the fact that these drivers do work really hard (hence, some people thinking it's okay), we must also think practically during these tough times.

the fare rollback is really small. in my opinion, it should have been at least P1. i understand that transport groups are still recuperating from their losses but the price of oil has been reduced already and i think it's time for the transport sector to give something back to the masses by further lowering the fare. this will be a great gift for the holidays. just my thoughts. although... i think all of this is just part of malacanang palace's plot to take the attention away from jocjoc bolante and the fertilizer scam. the thief pretending to be president and her cohorts are behind this. i know this is absurd but this is the first thing that entered my mind when i heard about the oil price rollback. this serves as a good smokescreen to whatever bolante will divulge about the scam that clearly favored the thief in the last elections. THIEF!!!THIEF!!!THIEF!!! sorry for the off-topic and the rant.

well they should do that! the drivers and "conductors" are not complaining if I pay .50 less than the usual fare... here in CDO the LPG prices are still so high...there's supposed to be a rollback for LPG too, right?

No, as I heard in the news that it is not fare for the fare to decrease only for .50 centavo for the oil in the market is already been decreasing in how many times for the roll back of the desired price if it will concern for the people which is the commuters as it is not so fair........and as I hear for this woman it is better to decrease in 1 peso as it could give a one piece of bread of pandesal in the morning and one in the afternoon and for sure it would help a lot for the people.....

I think it is not fair. Happy mylotting!!

I don't think that it is fair. It should have been peso 1.0 or 1.50 decrease for jeepney fare! The price of gasoline and diesel had tremendously went down already and only .50 centavos was the decrease on our fare? And I just heard from the news that the implementation will be on Monday (November 7th) because the drivers asked for an extension. I really think that it is unfair.

That's a mockery of our rights as citizens. Given the 2 peso increase, the 0.50 centavos decrease is something similar to what you give a kid when he's crying so loudly: a candy. You can't even buy a candy for 50 cents these days here in the Philippines.