sakay.ph

Commuting is hard. It doesn't have to be.

Get jeepney, bus, and train directions in Metro Manila.

Jeep! Bus! Train!

Go mobile with SMS

Get directions on your mobile phone.

We used to have route via SMS available, but it went down a lot. Plus we weren't too happy with it, so until further notice, it is discontinued.

Search statistics

COMING SOON — Commonly searched routes, time-of-day graphs, and route visualizations.


We’re still collecting data. Why don‘t you try using the service? ;)

Frequently Asked Questions

So what's all this, then?

Sakay.ph is a webapp that aims to help people use jeepneys, buses, and trains in Metro Manila. It's like Google Maps, but for commuting!

It was built as an entry to the Philippine Transit App Challenge, and is open-sourced under the MIT license.

How are you maintaining this / making money?

We're providing this service freely for the foreseeable future. We built it partly for the challenge, but mostly because it's something we'd personally love to have.

That said, if you'd like to help out, you're free to donate! We'd appreciate it. (Links coming soon)

Your directions are wrong!

Sorry about that — the data is graciously provided by the DOTC, ASTI, etc., and is out of our control. You're welcome to help out, though. Why not check out their forum, or hit us up on Twitter?

Who made this thing, anyway?

Sakay.ph was built by Thomas Dy, and designed by . We do awesome stuff at By Implication, which you should totes check out. (some of our projects include storylark.ph and sari.ph, among others.)

We use OpenTripPlanner and OpenStreetMap for routing, and Google Places API for geocoding. The front-end is built with Compass, Ractive, and Leaflet.

There're also a number of customizations we've made to the OSM data and OTP code to accommodate the Philippine transit system's weirdness.

We’ve made our backend and data publicly accessible, and a number of other entries and projects currently use it.

I’d like to learn more about how you built this.

You should drop by Thomas’ blog. I hear he's a very pleasant programmer.

Can I print directions on paper?

Yup, you sure can. Just hit the PRINT button in the directions panel.

This looks broken in Safari 6.

This is a bug in Safari. :( it’s fixed in Mavericks. Please try Chrome, Firefox, Opera, or even IE 10 for now (really, everything else!)

Do you still not have statistics after all this time?

We still don't have a nice UI for visualizing things, but we do have some posts in our blog that might interest you.

This page looks sort of different from how it was before.

We took out some features that we no longer provide. Rest assured; you're not missing out on anything. If you're curious how it looked like before, you're free to check out the source.

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