Suggestion Collecting all Jeepney routes in DGTE

Don't know where it is going but I think you will find it came from Valencia as they only have 3
numbers

 

AHA. Thats another one. I also noticed, as I was driving around today, that the ones to Bacong have only 3 numbers. So that's Valencia, Bacong or Sibulan have 3 digits and their home town written on the board (sometimes in small print). All the ones with 4 digits seem to be Dumaguete City based and that is why you need to look at the numbers. Example: If you are in town and board a Sibulan based tricycle he will not charge as much to take you to Sibulan as a Dumaguete based tricycle. Well he will if you are not wise enough to know the difference but now we know.

 

I tend to see some sort of Pattern here, maybe it is the Dumaguete City Trikes that have 4 numbers and outlying municipalities that have only 3 on the other Hand Bacong may get more Valencia Trikes due to it's proximity.
Just a thought

 

I tend towards your first thoughts as the number boards on the Bacong and Sibulan 3 digit trikes have the name of their home terminal printed on them so it logically follows that Valencia must have their town name on the trike also.

 

It would help more if there was a route number on the front. Have you noticed people craning their necks as a jeepney goes past to see where it is from? Look closer. I get a stiff neck from it. It is because the jeep from Sibulan, going to Dumaguete, takes a different route than the jeep from Amlan, going to Dumaguete, so its not enough to only know the destination if you want to get dropped off along the route. Same in Cebu when I used to take Jeepneys. So I take it you seldom if ever take a jeepney?

 

The tricycles have unit (LTFRB) numbers, not route numbers. This is in most areas so. In Davao there are tricycles with route numbers. In Olongapo they are color coded to a fixed area.

A route number at the front is still more conveniant than nothing. As I was the first time in Cebu I learned very fast, that the 14D route goes from near the hotel to the Ayala mall. Or that all routes with a 06 was going to Guadaloupe. Why are most western cities are using route numbers on their public transport vehicles? Because of the much faster identification. It takes some time for someone driving only cars to get into any public transport system.

Btw: Olongapo have around 220k habitants.

 

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