Green Frog Hybrid Buses

Green Frog Zero Emissions Transport Corp. or Green Frog Transport Corp. or simply Green Frog is an intercity bus company in the Philippines that introduced the first hybrid buses in the country.[1]

Green Frog Hybrid Buses
SloganBecause the Filipino deserves better...
Founded2012 (2012)
HeadquartersMakati Central Business District, Makati City
Service areaSM Mall of Asia-C5 Buting via Macapagal Buendia Avenue Kalayaan Avenue
Service typeCity Operation
Fleet15 Buses
OperatorGreen Frog Transport Corp.

History

Company founder Philip Apostol and associates conceived the idea of Green Frog in March 2012 with the aim of a safe, comfortable, reliable, environment friendly and sustainable public transportation.[2]

Green Frog rolled out the pilot project on May 15, 2013 with 2 hybrid buses plying the route of Line 1 Gil Puyat Station in Pasay City to C-5/Buting in Makati City and vice versa.[3] On November 14, 2014, the route extension to SM Mall of Asia in Pasay was approved by the LTFRB.[4]

Fleet

The Green Frog was the first public bus company in the Philippines to operate two door, low floor Euro 4 compliant hybrid buses to be used for public transportation in the Philippines. The bus fleet was also one of the first in the country to implement the use of GPS, CCTVs for security, and the Tap Card payment system.

Operation

Green Frog buses currently traverse the three Central Business Districts of Pasay, Makati and Taguig (BGC) beginning from the Pasay Central Business District through Makati Central Business District and to Kalayaan along the Bonifacio Global City area and back. By 2025, the company plans on expanding the route further to Kalayaan Ave. Terminal as to serve the passengers of the Metro Manila Subway Line 9.[5]

  1. SM Mall of Asia
  2. Macapagal Boulevard / Blue Bay Walk
  3. F.B. Harrison
  4. Leveriza
  5. LRT-1 Gil Puyat Station / Taft Avenue
  6. Tramo
  7. Bautista
  8. Filmore
  9. PNR/SLEX
  10. Chino Roces (Pasong Tamo)
  11. Ayala Avenue / Makati Medical Center
  12. Ayala Avenue / RCBC Plaza
  13. Nicanor Garcia / Reposo
  14. Makati Avenue
  15. Paseo de Roxas
  16. EDSA / MRT-3 Gil Puyat (before EDSA-Buendia flyover, in front of Urdaneta Village (East) Gate)
  17. Palawan St.
  18. Sgt. Fabian Yabut Circle
  19. Commercio
  20. Lawton / Gate One.
  21. 11th Avenue
  22. Pili
  23. Circumferential Road 5 (C5)

The buses mostly caters to the needs of passengers especially students and workers travelling to and from the Makati Central Business District and Bonifacio Global City.

See also

References
  1. http://manilastandardtoday.com/2013/05/05/after-e-jeeps-hybrid-buses-hit-makati-streets/ After ‘e-jeeps’, hybrid buses hit Makati streets
  2. Amy R. Remo (5 October 2015). "Green Frog teaches us how commuting should be done". http://business.inquirer.net/. Inquirer.net. External link in |website= (help)
  3. "LTFRB Approves hybrid bus franchise". ph.news.yahoo.com. 1 May 2013.
  4. Patrick Everett Tadeo (11 October 2014). "Green Frog hybrid bus transport extends route to Mall of Asia". Top Gear Philippines. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
  5. "Schedules and Fare". google.com/maps. Google. Archived from the original on 2015-04-26.
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