Whether you take a car, a bus, a cab, a train or even a GrabBike to wherever you’re going, one thing is perfectly clear: commuting in this country is an exhausting, time-consuming and wallet-draining nightmare.

Not even Sunday – once considered a day when you could go out for fun – is safe nowadays from the unparalleled misery of traffic jams, crazy drivers and hassle-free journeys. Indeed, over two in five Filipinos said their commute this year was worse than a year ago, which was the highest number among 12 countries surveyed in a study that Ford Motor Company conducted on the state of commuting in the Asia-Pacific region.

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