PHILIPSBURG--The president and members of the Bus Drivers Association held a brief meeting on the Pondfill today as the association launched a signature campaign amongst its members for a petition to be submitted to Governor Eugene Holiday condemning government’s recent issuing of 24 new bus permits.
Bus Drivers Association President Jose Slac said the petition would be submitted to Governor Eugene Holiday to see if anything could be done about what he described as the “irresponsible decision of the minister to give out 24 permits after promising the Bus Drivers Association that no permits will be issued.”
Slac said the circumstances under which the bus drivers were working already were not favourable. “The road is oversaturated with buses. The system needs to be run in a more relaxed manner, not running up and down behind one another, burning fuel. And the increase in the price of gas is really affecting our drivers,” Slac explained Tuesday.
He said the association would submit a petition to the Governor to see if he could hold back on the decision taken by the minister.
When asked whether the association was looking into possible solutions to this issue, Slac said discussions had been held previously with the Department of Economic Affairs and things had been going in the right direction.
“Unfortunately, with the collapse of the government, we have to deal with a new minister and we don’t know how it’s going to continue from here on,” he said.
He stressed that the Bus Association had not submitted any names for bus licences.
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