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Aug 20, 2011 Letters
Dear Editor,
For a while now commuters have been facing all sorts of inhumane acts from mini-bus operators without any hope of travelling without fear. Apart from being overcharged, travelling in overloaded buses, reckless driving, loud music and facing constant abuse when objecting to these atrocities, they are being exposed to another dangerous recipe for disaster that sooner or later could be very detrimental to one of us.
All fifteen seat (15) minibuses (the new pit-bull buses hold twenty I think), are supposed to have a conductor/conductress, and for a while now I have been seeing buses working without conductors/conductress daily and the driver would be driving and have to perform these other duties.
Mr. Editor, I believe this is illegal and suspect that the Guyana Police Force Traffic Department is aware of this situation, and I am wondering why they are not being hauled in front of the courts. Anyone travelling on the West Coast of Demerara would see countless buses operating this way. I have spoken to a few people and they all complain of this new trend and make mention of particular drivers who regularly engage in this type of behavior and also drive dangerously.
Depending on the time, we all know that when it’s the so called “happy-hour,” there is a mad rush by the mini buses to gather as much money as they could, and whilst doing so drivers can be seen driving at reckless speeds and counting money/making change at the same time. Now I know for sure that at the said time all their concentration is mostly focused on the change that they are counting out and not on their driving. That temporary focus on the money could cause an accident.
If there are laws against driving and operating music equipment or being on cell phones, perhaps the law makers can look into this issue as well or perhaps they will wait until an accident happens and then rush to remedy this new phenomenon.
Sahadeo Bates
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