Bus shortage! - Jamaica - JUTC's fleet of 730 buses non-functional
Kingston,Jamaica -The Jamaica Gleaner, by Tyrone Reid -Sept 24, 2006: -- A plethora of problems, including the unavailability of spare parts, bad roads and frequent crashes, has rendered close to half of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company's (JUTC) fleet of 730 buses non-functional and has placed the financially unstable company speeding down a path of inefficiency... Officials from the JUTC confessed that the 390 buses currently in the system are inadequate and cannot efficiently serve the commuting public within the Kingston Metropolitan Transport Region where the bus company operates... The bus shortage has therefore impacted on the length of time that a passenger has to wait on a bus. A passenger now waits at a bus stop from as short a time as six minutes on a busy corridor during the peak period, to two hours in an area with low ridership on a weekend...
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