YESTERDAY, FOR THE SECOND evening straight, commuters in the Fairchild Street Bus Terminal were left waiting for as many as five hours for a bus.
As they fumed, private operators put on the table an emergency relief offer to Government to deploy as many as 50 minibuses and route taxis at short notice to assist stranded commuters with single-run operations, before returning to their regular routes.
And chairman of the United Commercial Autoworks Limited (UCAL), Sir Roy Trotman, threw out an olive branch to the Transport Board, offering its services to get broken down buses back on the road despite being owed several millions dollars for work already done.
All this was occurring as sources at the board’s Weymouth, Roebuck Street headquarters charged that the state corporation, which not so long ago operated with a working fleet of 230 buses before reducing it to around 150, was this week struggling to find 80 working units. (LK)
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