JUTC expands service to Clarendon

By Prince Moore    

 

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company has revived its service in Clarendon while adding a new route between May Pen and Spanish Town, St. Catherine.

 

The state-run bus company says this is part of efforts to provide public transportation service outside the Kingston Metropolitan Transport Region.

 

Transport Minister Daryl Vaz says plans are also in place to add a JUTC route from Spanish Town to Linstead, St. Catherine.

 

Mr. Vaz says the latest move is to provide relief to residents amid a suspension of the railway service between Bog Walk and Spanish Town. 

 

"The fact is that we have refurbished quite a number of buses and we have also retrofitted with new parts some of the old stock, while introducing over 200 buses over the last two years," he noted.  

 

Mr. Vaz said another hundred buses should arrive in June this year to boost the fleet of the JUTC. 

 

"So, as far as that is concerned, that will give us a lot of additional resources in terms of buses to be able to treat with these routes while not sacrificing the efficiency on the existing routes of the [KMTR].... We don't want to spread ourselves too thin but we also understand the necessity to expand the routes for the convenience and efficiency of the communities not only in Kingston and St. Andrew and St. Catherine but across the country," he said. 

 

Last year, the JUTC introduced two routes connecting St. Thomas and Kingston.