Transport Authority to crack down on bus and taxis in downtown area

The Transport Authority has vowed to crack down on bus and taxi operators who refuse to use the new transport facility in downtown Kingston.

That issue was brought to the attention of Transport Authority Operations Manager, Cecil Morgan, by Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation  (KSAC) Town Clerk, Errol Greene.

“Because I been here long before you this morning and if you just wait where we are for five minutes you will see the amount of people coming from that way where the buses terminate at the gas station under the guise that they are going to fill their tanks and dump off the passengers and they are forced to walk. If you also look at the pedestrian traffic along Water Lane it is increased as well because the buses are dumping off the people,” Mr. Greene said.

While downplaying the severity of Monday morning's confusion, Mr. Morgan says come Tuesday, bus and taxi operators will not be treated lightly.    

“I would not say that we are having confusion, today we are going to try and work with them and advise them accordingly, come tomorrow if they continue to behave that way their buses will be taken away from them, it will be seized,”

“We can’t have a system in place and there are persons who are trying to deliberately trying to destroy the plans that we have put in place,” Mr. Morgan said.

In the meantime, Mr. Morgan says instructions have been issued for Inspectors to redirect taxis which ply the Jones Town, Waltham Park, and Chisholm Avenue routes.

The Transport Authority Operations Manager says these taxis will also be seized if the operators fail to use the facility that has been constructed for them.