PinoyVoices

28/03/2026

Since I posted about carpooling a couple days back, I’ve received around 30 emails. Not comments. Emails. From people who took the time to sit down, find my address, and write.

Developers who already have the build in their heads. Students who want to do it as a thesis project. Mothers from Alabang, Paranaque, Marikina, all asking how to get it started in their villages.

Different backgrounds. Different ages. Different problems. Same solution.

And every single one of them asked me the same thing at the end.
Is this actually legal? Will I be impounded for doing this?

I’ve already answered this through an interview on CNN I did with former LTFRB chairman, Martin Delgra. He told me on live television that if no money is being charged through the platform, the LTFRB has no jurisdiction and no intention of stepping in.

But a quote from a former chairman in an old interview isn’t policy. And 30 people ready to build something real deserve an official answer, not just my word for it.

So here we are. Publicly. On the record.
With fuel prices squeezing every family in this country, traffic getting worse, and public transport not getting better, there are people ready to build something that costs the government nothing. No budget. No infrastructure. No procurement process. Just permission for communities to help themselves move more efficiently.

This is the kind of moment that defines how history remembers a regulator. Not the rules they enforced, but the ones they had the wisdom to step back from.

All they need is one sentence.

Something like: We support community-based, non-commercial carpooling initiatives.

That’s it. And suddenly those 30 people become 300. Then 3,000. Villages across Metro Manila start building their own systems. Families save money.

Congestion eases. And the LTFRB gets to be part of the story that made it happen.
That is a good look. A proper solution, gift wrapped for them. All they have to do is publicly endorse it.

Because the alternative doesn’t play as well. Silence reads as complicity. A shutdown reads as exactly what everyone already suspects. That the system protects markets more than it moves people.

So here is the graceful exit. Take it. One statement. One sentence. That’s all it takes.

If you’re in favor of this, share this or tag the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board - LTFRB in the comments so we can all finally know one way or the other: Will the LTFRB support non-profit, community based carpooling apps or not?

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The good attorney here is correct.

While it is true that we should never discriminate against anyone especially those who have acquired HIV, some lessons need to be emphasized -

1. You can't blame conservatives for the rising HIV cases when they teach abstinence and chastity to begin with.

2. S*x has consequences - whether it is life or STIs - as no contraception or protection is 100% safe. The only safe s*x is to do it with someone who is committed to you sacramentally and legally (marriage) and to stay faithful to each other.

Concepts like "Safe S*x" and "no strings attached" are ideas that led us to this reality of rising HIV cases. But... it's easier to blame conservatives.

Kudos to Atty. Ed! We approve this message!



AJ

09/01/2026

A man works to provide for his wife and children.
Not because he’s pressured by culture, but because he is called to it. Provision isn’t oppression. It’s responsibility. It’s love in action.

Men are providers—this is a hallmark of masculinity.
A good man doesn’t run from sacrifice. He leans into it.
He shoulders the weight so his family doesn’t have to.

A man is called to build a home where his family feels safe, cherished, and secure—a place shaped by his strength, steadied by his consistency, and warmed by his devotion.

This is the beauty of fatherhood.
This is the dignity of a man who knows his purpose.
And in a world confused about the roles of men, we honor the ones who quietly live the truth.

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