U.s. President Barack Obama was not fit to ride a true jeepney, however he was around the first to see what's to come for the supposed "ruler of the street" in the Philippines.
When he tended to Filipino and American military men in Fort Bonifacio Tuesday, Obama went to the launch of a private e-jeepney venture at Sofitel
in Pasay City.
The U.s. President who is known for his environmental change plan, even sheets the zero-discharge electric shuttle that may soon trade the celebrated Philippine jeepneys.
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| A unit of the City Optimized Managed Electric Transport. (Photo from GET Philippines' Facebok page) |
The City Optimized Managed Electric Transport (COMET) is situated to be propelled in May, at first with 30 vehicles handling the North Avenue-Monumento course.
The undertaking, a joint wander between U.s. also Philippine engineers, would like to inevitably swap the 30,000 jeepneys in Metro Manila with 15,000 e-shuttles in three years.
Aside from contamination, different issues the e-shuttle undertaking wants to address incorporate worker clogging and activity development, which is vigorously faulted for jeepneys.
Despite the fact that it keeps the open-window plan, the COMET is required to be more agreeable, as riders can remained inside. Entryways are likewise as an afterthought so they can land to the walkway.
Obama's vicinity in the COMET launch is typical, as the Filipino jeepney idea utilization restored wartime vehicles American left in the nation after World War II.
In the wake of going to the e-shuttle propel, the U.s. President headed to Fort Bonifacio to address U.s. furthermore Pinoy troops, and additionally to pay tribute to fallen American fighters.
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