That doesn't stop people from squeezing in when the benches are already full, though. Sometimes they even hang off the back! A jeepney costs nine pesos per ride ($0.17). To catch a ride, you stand on the side of the road and flag down the vehicle you want. After crawling into the jeepney, and depending on where you sit, you do one of two things. Either, you call out to the driver "Bayad po" (payment sir) and pass your money directly to him, or you pass your money through a chain of people until it reaches him. Then you ride until you want to get off. To do that you say "Para po" (stop sir), or you bang on the side of the jeepney then crawl out the end once the vehicle has stopped moving. In Angeles City, the jeepneys are color-coded by route, but in other places these vehicles are numbered.
Trikes are entirely different. These are motorcycles with sidecars for a passengers to ride in. Trikes are usually stationed outside malls or neighborhoods where the driver knows there is a lot of foot traffic. I usually ride to work in a trike every day. You flag one down and tell the driver where you want to go. You can sit inside the cab or on the back of the motorcycle. In Angeles City, the trikes are pretty small compared to those in other cities. Fitting more than three people on to a trike seems like an incredible feat to me, but I've seen it done! I've seen as many as seven kids on one trike before, some even riding on the top of the side car! One of the problems with this mode of transport is that the drivers will only travel a certain distance away from their starting point, so if you want to go far away you have to plan on taking more than one form of transportation.
