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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Additional measures to...tre ( RJR )...</span>
Additional measures are to be implemented on Monday as the Transport Authority moves to deal with bus and taxi operators, who are still refusing to use the Municipal Transport Centre in downtown Kingston. Special attention will be paid to bus operators from Portland and St. Mary, as well as taxi men who ply the Jones Town, Waltham Park Road and Chisholm Avenue routes in Kingston.It is reported that the operators have been prematurely ending their trips in downtown Kingston in order to avoid stopping at the Transport Centre.Cecil Morgan, General Manager of Operations at the Transport Authority, says a new tracking system is to be implemented to monitor those operators and to ensure that they complete their routes.Mr. Morgan disclosed that other strong action is being contemplated."We plan to do is to track them down during the course of the week and try to ensure that they complete the route because if they are not going to operate (with the new system), their licences will be terminated because there is absolutely no way that we can have operating contrary to the terms and conditions of their road licences," said Mr. Morgan. KSAC to finish work on Pechon Street facilityIn the meantime, the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC), is expected to complete work on the Pechon Street facility in another two weeks.The schedule was agreed on during a meeting held last week with officials of the KSAC, the Transport Authority and the Urban Development Corporation."The KSAC has been given until Monday, February 7 to ensure that all the infrastructure work as it relates to signs, lights, markings in the park are in place to ensure that the commuters and the operators are bale ot use the park in a more useful way," Mr. Morgan added.
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Additional measures to...tre ( RJR )...</span>
Additional measures are to be implemented on Monday as the Transport Authority moves to deal with bus and taxi operators, who are still refusing to use the Municipal Transport Centre in downtown Kingston. Special attention will be paid to bus operators from Portland and St. Mary, as well as taxi men who ply the Jones Town, Waltham Park Road and Chisholm Avenue routes in Kingston.It is reported that the operators have been prematurely ending their trips in downtown Kingston in order to avoid stopping at the Transport Centre.Cecil Morgan, General Manager of Operations at the Transport Authority, says a new tracking system is to be implemented to monitor those operators and to ensure that they complete their routes.Mr. Morgan disclosed that other strong action is being contemplated."We plan to do is to track them down during the course of the week and try to ensure that they complete the route because if they are not going to operate (with the new system), their licences will be terminated because there is absolutely no way that we can have operating contrary to the terms and conditions of their road licences," said Mr. Morgan. KSAC to finish work on Pechon Street facilityIn the meantime, the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC), is expected to complete work on the Pechon Street facility in another two weeks.The schedule was agreed on during a meeting held last week with officials of the KSAC, the Transport Authority and the Urban Development Corporation."The KSAC has been given until Monday, February 7 to ensure that all the infrastructure work as it relates to signs, lights, markings in the park are in place to ensure that the commuters and the operators are bale ot use the park in a more useful way," Mr. Morgan added.