Arima PBR maxis warned about ‘dishonest’ practice

Transport Minister, Franklyn Khan yesterday warned Arima maxi taxi drivers that they could lose their PBR passes if they continue the “dishonest” practice of charging passengers $5 to go to Port of Spain and then drop them off at stop points before that destination. Speaking at yesterday’s post-Cabinet media briefing, Khan said he hoped that this threat would bring back some level of “sanity” on the roads. He suggested that passengers should report such cases to his ministry giving the number of the maxi taxi.

At the briefing Khan also revealed that the various stakeholders of the two Diego Martin Secondary Schools (at Westmoor-ings) which caused much controversy met yesterday under the aegis of UdeCott to formally discuss the lay out and the new traffic arrangements needed to make the school a reality. On the traffic plans for the Diego Martin schools, Khan said  there would be an overpass across the Diego Martin highway so that people could access the schools from Diego Martin without having to go through Westmoorings area.“We have now conceptualised all aspects of that major project which we  think that this would transform the Western Peninsula and all parties are proceeding apace to bring it into fruition — that is the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Works and Transport,” he said. Khan also announced that the traffic management plan, was expected to be complete by the end of October.