End of the road for jeepneys

Fighting back: A woman holding placards as she joins a protest caravan to oppose the government’s jeepney modernisation plan in Manila. — AFP

The first jeepneys rolled onto the streets of the Philippines just after World War II – noisy, smoke-belching vehicles initially made from leftover US Jeeps that became a national symbol.

Seven decades later, the colourfully-decorated vehicles are facing an existential threat from a plan to replace them with modern minibuses.