The Bonifacio Transport Corporation, or more commonly known as BGC Bus or formerly The Fort Bus, is an intercity bus company in

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, the

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, serving routes that connect

Makati Makati ( ), officially the City of Makati ( fil, Lungsod ng Makati), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. Makati is the financial center of the Philippines; it has the highest concentration ...

Bonifacio Global City Bonifacio may refer to: Places * Bonifacio, Corse-du-Sud, a town in Corsica, France * Strait of Bonifacio, separating Corsica from Sardinia * Bonifacio, Misamis Occidental, a municipality in the Philippines * Bonifacio Global City, a central bu ...

, and

Taguig Taguig (), officially the City of Taguig ( fil, Lungsod ng Taguig), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 886,722 people. Located in the northwestern shores of ...

. The company is a subsidiary of the Fort Bonifacio Development Corporation (FBDC), an affiliate company under the

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. The bus system uses the

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as a mode of

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History

Founded in 1998, the Bonifacio Transport Corporation was established under the Fort Bonifacio Development Corporation (FBDC). It was formed through an initial fleet of 24 buses — 10 of which are

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buses and the rest are

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units — as an intercity transport system to and from the adjacent business districts of Bonifacio Global City and

Ayala Center The Ayala Center is a major commercial development operated by Ayala Land located in the Makati Central Business District in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines. About the Center The Ayala Center is a recreational, shopping, dining, and enter ...

. In 2008, six

O500M 1725 buses were deployed by FBDC, followed by an additional 14 buses to keep up with passenger demand. In the same year, HM Transport Inc. and the Bonifacio Transport Corporation signed an agreement, allowing the use of HM Transport buses to serve routes to and from Bonifacio Global City. As a result, a weekday bus route between the

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shopping mall in

EDSA Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, commonly referred to by its acronym EDSA, is a limited-access circumferential highway around Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. It passes through 6 of Metro Manila's 17 local government units or citie ...

, and

Kalayaan Avenue Kalayaan Avenue is a major east–west route in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines. For most of its length, it runs parallel to J.P. Rizal Avenue to the north from East Rembo near Fort Bonifacio to Barangay Singkamas by the border with San And ...

was established. In 2016, the BGC Bus replaced its TapBGC contactless smart card with AF Payments Inc's Beep card. A limited public trial was conducted from June 11 to 26, and was fully rolled out on June 27, 2016.

Fleet

Bonifacio Transport Corp. utilizes and maintains

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and

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buses. *

** DMMW Aero Adamant (under HM Transport) *

** DMMW Aero Extreme **

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C120 LE *

**Santarosa EXFOH (under HM Transport)

Routes

BGC Bus operates primarily on 11 different routes with terminals at the

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along EDSA in Makati or at the Market! Market! mall in Taguig. On August 7, 2017, express bus routes were introduced. All times are in

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( UTC+08:00).

References

{{Transportation in the Philippines Bus companies of the Philippines Bus transportation in Metro Manila Companies based in Bonifacio Global City

History

Fleet

Routes

See also

References