(ST.LUCIA Times)Transport Minister Stephenson King has reiterated concern over the number of vehicles Saint Lucia imports.
“We have too many vehicles being imported,” the former Prime Minister told reporters.
But he explained that before the government takes any drastic measures to address the situation, including the number and make of the imported vehicles and whether they are environmentally friendly, there was a need to look at the public transport.
In this regard, King recalled that the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) recently conducted a study on improving Saint Lucia’s public transport system.
“If we have an efficient public transportation system that is an improved system to what exists now with the current minibus operation where you have got to stand and wait until the bus driver believes that his bus is filled and then you move. But to have a system that you know if it says at 8 O’ clock you can get there and move at 8 O’ clock, then it means you can then regulate the movement of traffic in and out of your City,” King said.
He told reporters this would allow people to use a park-and-ride system to take public transportation into the City.
“These are some of the options. But we await the final report of the CDB which will inform us which is the best way of moving forward,” the Castries North MP stated.
