Transport concerns

IT?CAN’T be business as usual at the cash-strapped Transport Board, and according to Minister of Transport and Works Michael Lashley, the relationship between the board and the United Commercial Autoworks Limited (UCAL) has to be re-examined.
Speaking at a Democratic Labour Party (DLP) branch meeting at Good Shepherd Primary School in Fitts Village, St James, yesterday, Lashley expressed concerns about the Parts Departments and maintenance costs and called for more buses to be imported.
“We provide an operations centre for UCAL. We supply them with parts. UCAL?doesn’t have to buy parts. All they have to do is to repair the buses and they are guaranteed about 30 per cent of the repair of the buses.
“We have to put further checks and balances in place. There has to be a re-examination of the relationship,” he said, adding that things had to change in the future.
“The Transport Board cannot function how it existed the last five years. It cannot. You cannot have a Transport Board that is pulling in $50 million in revenue while the expenditure is over $50 million. Something has to be wrong.