Free Rides in My City

@Vree0937 I do agree that the gasoline price spikes here lately. So the local government had this free ride implemented.

@Vree0937, it's buses from the government and it operates during pandemic during lockdown for not all have wheels.

There are school buses and company buses but the buses here are for those who prefer f2f work not WFH and all students here from nursery to tertiary are doing online classes. The free rides are for those one member in the family to go out to buy essential needs in ECQ and no cars. At home it's me and my niece to buy essentials at home but we don't ride free buses. I have my own car so with my niece. Somehow I may ride on those free ride buses after the pandemic.

It is also given that the senior citizens will be having free rides. I prefer that my mom not ride public transportations like this, except for the taxi. It is best for her to ride a taxi because it is safer from having coronavirus.

@JudyEv, it's also the same in New Zealand. Dennis was entitled of free postal, free train, free big bus. When we went to downtown Auckland, we rode on mini train for I requested it to experience hehe and he got free ride back and forth. That's wonderful and will never happen again even in my dreams.

@Shavkat, don't let your mom go out from home, it's risky.

@Shavkat Which makes us surmise that the taxes we pay are really more than enough to sustain the citizens' needs. There are funds for our health care, funds for our public utility services, funds for our city landscapes conducive for the betterment of our being.... etc. Except that our coffers had been robbed by inside job. Grrrr. This pandemia has proven that the government could afford taking care of all a hundred million of us, if only the robbers did not get so greedy. The public need not thank the government for the free rides. It is our taxes that worked for us.

I am glad that it also happens there. I sometimes see them park and refraining themselves not to let the locals ride on these free ride buses. I think I need to investigate more about this claim.

@eileenleyva I agree. Even the availability of the vaccines, they had provided to the locals.

I sometimes cannot ride on them because they are only a few buses like this here. It was during the pandemic that they started to come out in public. Last week, I saw two vans that provide free rides, too. However, I prefer not to ride them. Why? Vans are so enclosed compared to mini-buses.

@cacay1 I do agree with you. I prefer to walk most of the time than riding on them.

@Shavkat it's not good to keep on going out.

Why not try to have a joy ride with them? Honestly, I prefer riding a taxi.

@Shavkat, I have my own car. I own a car since 19 94, the first was Nissan Sentra. My niece at home too also has her own car 2 years old and she almost fully paid it. Somehow I plan to fry riding a free ride bus.

@cacay1 That's nice. If it is traffic, it is so hassle of being stuck here with your car.

It is also the same thing here. The local public transportations, such as jeepneys, taxis and that includes mini-buses went up to their fares. If I cannot see this kind of bus, I prefer to do brisk walking.

@franxav, what about the senior citizens in your country , do they also pay? Or discounted?

@Shavkat it's a global problem especially this time when Taliband took over Afghanistan the great source of oil.

At some point, it can be said. There is nothing free anymore. The drivers of these mini-buses were paid by the local government here.

I think this is only implemented in provinces.

@Shavkat aw, we are excluded in the metro

@Shavkat there are here and yes in provinces.

I agree. They actually increased the gasoline prices when implemented this.

@Shavkat now that is an interesting way to do it

At first, I got confused. I thought that these authorized people are the frontliners.

@JimBo452020 The Delta variant had reported cases here.

@Shavkat Why can everyone not go out Is Covid still really bad there?