IF THE TRANSPORT Board owes the NIS millions of dollars, how can they still allow school children to travel on the buses free?
No wonder some of them and some of their parents allow transport board buses to pass them half empty at bus stops, while they wait for minibuses or ZR vans.
Some of the minibuses and ZR vans pass some people full to capacity, but transport Board buses pass some of them afterwards almost half- empty, and they still would not take them.
In some cases they only take transport board buses if they are senior citizens and can show their cards or if it is a certain time in the night when minibuses are not running.
I am aware that to ask all schoolchildren to pay some kind of bus fare can become political. No political party in power would remove the no-pay on the buses for schoolchildren. Votes can be won or lost one way or the other if either party takes that position while in power.
I wish that one of the major political parties while in power can become bold enough to stamp out this freedom. Right now, a freeness mentality seems to be permeating our society. Children are growing into adulthood expecting that everything would be free. They don’t seem prepared to work hard for what they want to achieve.
– BISHOP VIBERT LOWE