The Transport Authority is warning that effective next Tuesday, it will intensify its operations to clampdown on illegal public transportation services in the Kingston Metropolitan Transport Region (KMTR).
The Authority says only the approved sub-franchise operators, rural buses and licensed route taxis on the Jones Town, Chisholm Avenue and Maxfield Avenue routes, will be permitted to provide stage carriage service.
Communication and Customer Services Manager at the Transport Authority, Petra-Kene Williams, says it will be a zero tolerance approach come next Tuesday.
“If we find operators operating without the proper road license, that will attract our attention. There are numerous offences, including not issuing tickets, uniforms for drivers, these are things that the authority will be looking out for,” she said.
In order to facilitate stage carriage operations, the authority has also started to sell bus tickets at its offices islandwide.
Williams also revealed that the Transport Authority's clampdown islandwide over the past three weeks, has led to more than one thousand prosecutions and over a hundred vehicles being seized.
“These road operations have resulted in several prosecutions for various offences under the Road Traffic Act and in some instances 129 seizures were undertaken for offences related to no road licenses and persons operating contrary to the terms and conditions of their road licenses,” she said.
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