• Lucytorial said on Sep 28, 2008....

  Queenie This totally rocks, its awesome! thank you thank you thank you...
   
  I'd love to take a ride on a jeepney and also a trycicle... it looks cool.  The jeepney's are so colourful! like a party on wheels! how KOOL...KOOL KOOL KOOL!
   
  What I noticed with the Jeepney's is they are all very personalised, like the owners have a thang! for their vehicles, each one a different personality!

• queenparanoia said on Sep 29, 2008....

  lucy: youre right lucy!!! every jeepne is personalized. it gives a lttle something to it!!! it's one cool ride!!! ;-)

• Lucytorial said on Sep 29, 2008....

  You could have so many giggles on one of those, seriously I'd love to sit up front with the driver and giggle away at his bits and peices (those special items to him on his bus)
   
   

• PAPERBACKWRITER said on Sep 29, 2008....

  
  Awww! I am just dropping by, and hope to read thoroughly later tonight (it´s lunchtime  - 12.02 pm  - here in Hamburg, Germany), kapatid!
  
  The pictures are great :) I can´t wait to show my girls when they get back from school.
  
  I will try to contribute this week, or as soon as time allows, and link to your blog, queenie.
  
  As I have said in your introductory blog to this series, I find this idea wonderful.  Another way to keep the community alive :).
  
  <3
  
  ate papel ~
  
  
  
  
  

• queenparanoia said on Sep 29, 2008....

  lucy: that's the best position when sitting on te jeepney!!! you could get all the action... ;-) you know i tried riding the roof on a jeepney once! it was great!!! ;-)

  paper: thanks ate paper!!!! i'm sure youre girls would love it!!! and i can't wait for your post about this!!! ;-)

• secretlife said on Sep 29, 2008....

  queenie:  in the US, we do have public transportation in the form of trains and buses.  where i live in NJ, it is common for people who work in New York City take the trains and buses to work because it's alot cheaper than driving by car, and paying for not only gas, but also tolls on the roads and tolls to cross the bridges/tunnels that separate the two states.
  for example, to cross the George Washington Bridge costs $8.
  if you carpool (3 or more people in the car) and have a special ticket on the car, it is reduced to $2.  this is supposed to give people motivation to car pool....
   
  in the big cities, like New York, it's very expensive to keep a car.  there isn't enough parking and parking is very very expensive.  so for those people, there is an underground train system called the Subway.  The subway connects Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx.  Trains run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year!
   
  where i live, most people drive cars to work.

• travelr712 said on Sep 29, 2008....

  hi qpdoll. i'm going to make a post about my city's transportation, but it'll have to wait till i get home from work. i'll link it here. just wanted you to know i read  this, and thought it was TOTALLY cool!

• kruuyai said on Sep 29, 2008....

  Hey queenie, thanks for sharing this.  Here in Prague, we just have buses, trams, metros and taxis.... I like the variety where you are.  :)  jAnd I love all the different bright colors!
  

• uniquely-ironic said on Sep 29, 2008....

  what a very cool series queenie!!!  I'm so impressed with how thoroughly you covered the systems in the Phillipines.  I'd totally like to try out some of your unique public transports.
   
  Here in the bay area of SF we have three main public transports beside the usual busses.
   
   
  Cable Car in the city of SF, which is a big tourist thing.  They were the actual first public transport system in the 1800s.  I have to admit, I've never ridden one.  Something I must remedy soon.
   
  Then there is the Bay Area Rapid Transit or BART system which is a high speed rail.  It doesn't go everywhere, but if you want to get into the city without the hassle of finding and paying for parking it's a good deal.
   
   
   
  The last is the CalTrain system.  This is even more limited, but it does go all the way to San Jose, CA which started being important when the Silicon Valley became a player in the high tech world.
   
   
   
  Honestly, I haven't used any of these systems but BART.  I have coworkers who use them to get to work and back, and I'm sure with the price of gas going up it will become more common.

• queenparanoia said on Sep 29, 2008....

  secretlife:  i would love to ride the subway someday secret!! well with gas prices nowadays i understand why people carpool nowadays... thanks ofr dropping by... ;-)

  trav: hi trav i'll be waiting to read that... ;-)

  kruu: hello kruu!!! i'm sure you'll love riding these!!!!

  hello uniquely! i didnt know you live in san francisco!!! by the way i want to ride the cable car to!!! it would be so cool!! anyway i'm glad you love this post dont worry i'll make a better one next time... ;-) and thanks for sharing!!!

• mobil said on Sep 29, 2008....

  Those are quite the colorful buggies you guys ride around in there Queenie. Here in Montana we drive mostly pickup trucks or some sort of four wheel drive.

• skald said on Sep 29, 2008....

  What a good post and the pictures are wonderful. I enjoyed this post so much and it is great that you use public transport so much. We, should do it here too. Thank you so much for this post. 

• diabolicdame said on Sep 29, 2008....

  Great pictures queenp!! Very colourful and vibrant. Here in Mumbai there are all kinds of transports.. buses.. trains.. three wheeler auto-rickshaws.. cabs.. and the roads are full of all kinds of cars and motorbikes. And there lots of traffic and lots of people everywhere!!

• onlymimi said on Sep 29, 2008....

• husbandhater said on Sep 29, 2008....

  I like your pictures Queenie. We use trains,vans(although they are not as nicely decorated as yours. Ours has advertisements plastered all over),I saw rickshaws recently,horsedrawn carriage

• Bosun said on Sep 29, 2008....

  Hello Queenparanoia! As a sailor on deployment, I've visited the Phillipeans several times. Our Captain wanted to purchase a Jeepney on one of our return trips to use stateside as our ship's vehicle. Sadly, this never happened.
   
  In my area, public transportation is the bus, however they have been talking about community bikes - these are bicycles painted a bright yellow that you can ride anywhere in town to another bike point. Currently they're arguing how people will pay for this or if it's going to be free - we'll have to see.

• queenparanoia said on Sep 29, 2008....

  mobil: glad you like em mobil!!!! ;-)
   
  skald: i'm glad you like this momy skald!!! ;-)
   
  diabolicdame: i think we both have the same mode of transportatins there!!!i would love to visit india and see it myself!!!
   
  HH: our trains have lot's of advertisement too. and i'm glad you like them... ;-)
   
  buson: hello buson! and welcome to my blog! i'm glad you visited my country. yup the jeepney is one cool vehicle! i hope your captain could purchase one! it's cheaper than a car!!! ;-)

• hotaka said on Sep 29, 2008....

  I gotta say the trisikad and the jeepney look really fun. I think I would just have to ride in one of those. And of course I would take lots of photos. When MiniHot is old enough I think I want to take him to the Philippines to try out some of these cool rides. Thanks for that interesting information.
  
  Well, what can I say about Japan? It's trains, bullet trains, subways, cars, taxis, buses, motorcycles, bicycles and feet.
  

• travelr712 said on Sep 29, 2008....

  i'm sorry qpdoll, i spent a half hour copying pics and creating a post, and then none of the pics would show up. probably cause i didn't put them on flickr first :-(
   
  i'll try again tomorrow.

• TinSoldier said on Sep 29, 2008....

  Hi, Queen!
  
  
  I don't take public transportation very often, but I have from time to time. I live in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon, and our public transport system is the envy of many.
  
  
  There's the Max train:
  
  
  
  And here's the bus:
  
  
  Hi, Queen!
  
  

• RollingC said on Sep 29, 2008....

  What an interesting post Queen....here in Miami we have buses and trains for transportation....the rickshaw is here also but it's mainly a tourist attraction.
  I have to set up a flickr acct. which I haven't done yet.
  How nice...makes me want to go to the Phillipines to try out the different rides there.   The painted buses are reminiscent of South America where those buses exist but more towards the interior....the countryside....and they are very brightly painted just like in your pics (almost...I think the ones you showed are better).
  All of them are highly personalized by each owner/driver.
   
  Rc
   

• queenparanoia said on Sep 30, 2008....

  hotaka: i would lke to ride the bullet train!!! ohhhh mini bot would love the trisikad!!!! it's fun!!! ;-)

  trav: that's okay trav... ;-)

  tinsoldier: well your train looks cool!!!!! thanks for posting them my fellow capricorn!!!

  rollingc: i'm glad you like them rc! yeah i think some south american countries have the same buses like here in the philippines. and if you do get a chance to go here try our jeepneys!!! ;-)

• diabolicdame said on Sep 30, 2008....

  Yeah I our transports are quite similar.. except yours are much more colourful!!  :-)

• queenparanoia said on Sep 30, 2008....

  diabolic: ;-)

• Rosenkransky said on Oct 08, 2008....

  Where I come from in North Queensland Australia we have a very cheap form of public transport...
  
  
  
  

• Rosenkransky said on Oct 08, 2008....

  Where I come from in North Queensland Australia we have a very cheap form of public transport... http://www.fotosearch.com/bthumb/IMR/IMR336/IE163-001.jpg
  
  
  
  

• queenparanoia said on Oct 08, 2008....

  rose: lol that's funny!!! ;-) thanks for sharing!!!

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