Creative public transpo now floats in City streets
Disaster can also be the mother of invention. It only takes a pressing situation, no matter how dire and tragic it is, for an average Pinoy to turn into MacGyver - one who can whip out something out of Discarded household objects in order to survive.Pinagbuhatan in Barangay in Makati, where flood waters have been slow to Subside, enterprising Pinoys have fashioned crudely-made rafts out of almost anything that floats: plastic pipes, styrofoam, airbeds. These makeshift rafts take stranded residents from their flooded houses to drier areas, Enabling them to go to work despite the seemingly hopeless circumstances.
For Sonny, a 19-year-old engineering student, it all started with a common predicament. Knowing that many in his community needed transportation through filthy brown water, he and his 13-year-old brother Jessie set up their bike to make that a pedicab would bring commuters to commercial areas outside the village for a fee.For Sonny - as well as for the countless others who saw business opportunities in these trying times - business is good. Sonny said he gets about seven passengers a day within a 6 pm to 6 p.m. working period. The prices, ranging from P75 to P150 for a two-to three-kilometer ride, can be steep for some. But many are willing to pay so they can stay dry, keep their jobs and continue to put food on the table.
Disaster can also be the mother of invention. It only takes a pressing situation, no matter how dire and tragic it is, for an average Pinoy to turn into MacGyver - one who can whip out something out of Discarded household objects in order to survive.Pinagbuhatan in Barangay in Makati, where flood waters have been slow to Subside, enterprising Pinoys have fashioned crudely-made rafts out of almost anything that floats: plastic pipes, styrofoam, airbeds. These makeshift rafts take stranded residents from their flooded houses to drier areas, Enabling them to go to work despite the seemingly hopeless circumstances.
For Sonny, a 19-year-old engineering student, it all started with a common predicament. Knowing that many in his community needed transportation through filthy brown water, he and his 13-year-old brother Jessie set up their bike to make that a pedicab would bring commuters to commercial areas outside the village for a fee.For Sonny - as well as for the countless others who saw business opportunities in these trying times - business is good. Sonny said he gets about seven passengers a day within a 6 pm to 6 p.m. working period. The prices, ranging from P75 to P150 for a two-to three-kilometer ride, can be steep for some. But many are willing to pay so they can stay dry, keep their jobs and continue to put food on the table.
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