Baguio City Has a Public Transportation Crisis

Baguio City has a public transportation crisis. The lines for jeepneys are hundreds of people long. It can be nearly midnight and people will still find it difficult to flag a taxi. Taxi and jeepney drivers sometimes prefer going home than taking passengers when the traffic situation becomes unbearable.

Some people say these only happen during holiday season wherein tourist arrival reaches its zenith. Nope, these also happen during the off-seasons. Not as often but they do happen.

There's a good paper recently published by the University of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development Studies that touches on Baguio City's urban problems and how these can be potentially solved or at least alleviated. 

Authored by Jeffrey H. Javier and Karl Mico D. Alangui, the paper is called 𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗼 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗨𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘆? The paper is free-access. Give it a read. Just Google the title of the paper and it should come up.

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