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| Government still pushing for unified bus system |
Travis Cartwright-Carroll
Guardian Staff Reporter travis@nasguard.com
Published: Jun 27, 2012
Minister of Transport and Aviation Glenys Hanna-Martin yesterday reaffirmed the government’s commitment to create a more efficient public transportation system. “The initial vision is for an umbrella ownership of all of the individual buses,” said Hanna-Martin yesterday outside Cabinet. “In The Bahamas we have close to 500 individual owners, franchise holders, and this is what comprises New Providence’s public transportation system; that has inherent issues.” Hanna-Martin, who held the same view during the last Christie administration, noted that the system is imperfect. “So we’re now moving towards what we call a rational, efficient public transportation system,” she said. “The model that we’re looking at is an individual or one umbrella owner where all of the several [franchise holders] come together and relinquish their individual ownership for collective ownership in this umbrella organization or corporation.” She said that would be the first step followed by creating a school bus system. “We’re hoping that out of that an offshoot of that will be a school bus system, which will more efficiently service school busing for our children,” she said. The minister also noted that a lot of the various bus routes are not properly serviced. |
