By Chloe Mari A. Hufana, Reporter
LACSON ANTHONY J. VIDUYA, 70, managed to send his six children to college using income from driving a rickety passenger jeepney in the Philippine capital.
He’s one of the more than 30,000 drivers and operators in Metro Manila who have consolidated under a jeepney modernization plan that seeks to professionalize the sector, while promising to make them more profitable.
Critics say the plan is anti-poor, and the new business model that it seeks to spawn is a case of corporate capture.
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