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Friday, June 27, 2025

New bus service in Chaguanas

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Ch­agua­nas' first in­ner bor­ough Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) bus ser­vice was launched yes­ter­day. The new ser­vice be­tween Ch­agua­nas Main Road and Price Plaza runs hourly and makes eight stops. The fare is $3, which is less than the $7 charged by taxi dri­vers.

The launch at the Ch­agua­nas Mar­ket car park, op­po­site the PTSC ter­mi­nus on Main Street, Ch­agua­nas, was at­tend­ed by Trans­port Min­is­ter Stephen Cadiz, May­or Gopaul Boodan, Pres­i­dent of the Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce, Richie Sookhai, Vin­cent Lasse, PTSC chair­man, and Ronald Forde, PTSC gen­er­al man­ag­er.Cadiz told the T&T Guardian: "This is very much a first for Ch­agua­nas. The area nev­er had this round the town ser­vice be­fore.

"Just like how Port-of-Spain and San Fer­nan­do have in­ner city bus ser­vices, we de­cid­ed to pro­vide Ch­agua­nas with the ser­vice, as well."Cadiz said the ser­vice is part of plans to move Ch­agua­nas from bor­ough to city sta­tus and sev­er­al oth­er in­ner city ser­vices are com­ing to the area."We are hav­ing three oth­er ser­vices, from Ch­agua­nas to En­deav­our, Ed­in­burgh 500 and Joyce Road."He said ex­pan­sion of PTSC's ser­vices would mean a need for ad­di­tion­al dri­vers.

Cadiz said Ch­agua­nas is the largest res­i­den­tial com­mu­ni­ty in T&T, with 110,000 peo­ple liv­ing in the area."I think the ser­vices will be well pa­tro­n­ised."Asked how the ser­vice will im­pact taxi dri­vers work­ing the Ch­agua­nas to Price Plaza route, the min­is­ter said it will just be an­oth­er op­tion for com­muters, who may al­so con­tin­ue tak­ing taxis when they have to.He not­ed that PTSC bus­es were the safest mode of trans­port in T&T with a very good track record to prove it.


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