Ministry of Transport Finalizing New Standards for Bus Industry

The six-month period that the government had given for the fuel subsidy to bus operators has expired, but until there’s a new definitive arrangement put in place, the current subsidy remains in effect. That’s also simultaneous to a new bus schedule being drafted that will govern how and when each bus will run. C.E.O. in the Ministry of Transport, Marconi Leal Junior told the media today.

Marconi Leal Jr.

Marconi Leal Jr., C.E.O., Ministry of Youth, Sports, Transport

“We’re working with bus operators, we’re having consultation sessions with them and so as soon as those are finalized, we’ll be releasing those to the public.”

Marion Ali

“There is a new agreement in light of this whole PetroCaribe arrangement. What kind of a role does that play in all of this?”

Marconi Leal Jr.

“I think that’s something that we’re now going to need to review and understanding the parameters and the opportunities that we will have with that, but to say that anything exists, that new agreement is new, so from the Department of Transport’s standpoint, that’s something that well have to work on.”

Leal says the Department of Transport will ensure that when the new bus schedules are out, the overcrowding of buses on holidays, such as what happened on November nineteenth, will not recur.