Pedicab drivers feel pinch of pandemic lockdown, uncertain future

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Before the lockdowns, the drivers say they could earn as much as P1,000 a day, especially when students would use their services to get to school. Nowadays, they would be happy to bring home P200. Sometimes they take home as little as P50.

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Sitting inside his pedicab while parked at a makeshift terminal under a flyover still under construction, 70-year-old Lamberto Rosiana looks at the few bills and coins in his hand— his earnings so far. The money amounts to a meager P150. This is just enough to buy some 3 kilos of rice and one dish to feed his family.The flyover provides protection from the heat but not from the dust kicked up by vehicles a few meters away.

“‘Pag umiikot ang gulong, may pera. 'Pag naka-tengga, nganga,” one of them says, eliciting a round of laughter from his fellow drivers, appreciative of the impromptu rhyme. While they are all light-hearted, some of the stories are not, even if they could be heard laughing. They all remember what it was like before the lockdowns.

Every now and then, one of them would wave to a potential passenger, urging passersby to take a ride which costs between P20 to P75.

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