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The clean-up of the Cheapside Terminal in St Michael is underway, says director of the Transport Authority Ruth Holder.
She gave that update on Thursday morning following complaints from drivers and the Alliance Owners of Public Transport (AOPT).
“It’s in an untidy state, similar to what the country is going through right now. This is not anything that is peculiar to Cheapside but we are making our best efforts to get it correct and rectified,” Holder said.
Holder was speaking after AOPT Chairman Roy Raphael and director of complaints Craig Banfield also visited the terminal. They said since the start of the week drivers and commuters had complained about the buildup of volcanic ash which made a mess, especially when the vehicles exited the terminal.
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AOPT director of complaints Craig Banfield (left) and chairman Roy Raphael looking at the new signage as Ministry of Transport and Works personnel complete their work in the background. - (Picture by Jameel Springer.) Social Share
The Alliance Owners of Public Transport (AOPT) will be writing Government seeking clarification over the erection of lane demarcations and signage in the Cheapside public service vehicle (PSV) terminal.
On Thursday morning, workers from the Ministry of Transport and Works were erecting signs with lane numbers and route lists, located to the top of the Bridgetown terminal. Some PSV operators were not pleased with the move.
With schools set to reopen from April 12, the Alliance Owners of Public Transport (AOPT) is pushing for students to return in a safe and healthy environment.
Speaking to the media at the presentation ceremony of 50 sanitisation dispensers from the Barbados Light and Power (BL&P), in Cheapside Terminal, AOPT director, Craig Banfield called for concise guidelines in the next Emergency Management COVID-19 Directives.
Banfield stressed that the Attorney General, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health must consult with the transportation sector on how to manage the safety of minors that take public transport . I am hoping in the next Emergency Management COVID-19 Directive, 2021, that we will have a new directive in which the management of school children will be placed in a top priority. There is a need for guidance of school children in general . . . . The safety of minors in this country is critical; to the majority of children that take public transport, Banfield sai
April 9, 2021
An official of the organisation representing private transit owners has called on Government to outline targeted and comprehensive guidelines in its next COVID-19 directives for keeping the island’s schoolchildren protected against the coronavirus upon the resumption of school in two weeks’ time.
Director of Complaints at the Alliance Owners of Public Transport (AOPT), Craig Banfield, made this plea on Thursday after his organization received hand sanitizing stations from the Barbados Light and Power Company for Public Service Vehicles operating out of the Cheapside Terminal.
With the new school term being slated to resume in a matter of weeks, he suggested any future COVID-19 directives from Government should have regulations stipulated for the management of children, since the majority of them have to take public transport to and from school.