Africa 24 news
Many passengers on Wednesday talked a lot about the annoying decision being taken by the government to stop commercial vehicles from moving along the city’s new road.
The decision is thought as ‘spontaneous’ as government had failed to inform the citizens before time.
The passengers say the old Bai Bureh road is very narrow for vehicular movements.
The road is not only so tight but ‘street market’ selling at Brima Lane in the far east will also cause traffic jam when the vehicle law enforcement will have been implemented on drivers.
A woman passenger who on boarded a mini-bus said many people have not used to en route the old road.
“Most people don’t know about this,” the woman said after a traffic police man had ordered the driver not to use the new road.
At Up gun, in the early morning of Wednesday 31, vehicles were held-up for minutes as many drivers were told to revert to the old route.
The congestion on the road shows signs of awaiting lateness and severe delays for passengers on boarding between Waterloo and Freetown.
The apprentice on the ‘poda-poda’ was quick to stress that the road is very narrow for a two-way vehicular flow.
“This will be a complete strain for us,” says also the driver.
On Tuesday, government vehicles, forty-nine, started running as public transport service in the city.
They are bought by the government with the view of ameliorating public transport challenges faced daily by citizens in the capital.
But many people have said the buses had not been brought by the government to help them but rather to make fast money.
One of the disappointed men who, a resident in Waterloo said: “When government increases the fare to Le 10 on the new buses, it suggests to us that they intend to add the price all on commercial vehicles.
“This is not good; the hardship is too much on us even as now. So adding the fare on public transport will mean more added suffering.”