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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

New traffic plan for Sando gets thumbs up

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A new traf­fic arrange­ment along High Street, San Fer­nan­do, that now re­quires taxis to wait in queue for pas­sen­gers has been giv­en the thumbs up by San Fer­nan­do Busi­ness As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Daphne Bartlett.

On Sat­ur­day, the Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture in­stalled met­al bar­ri­ers along the Port-of-Spain, Curepe and Ch­agua­nas taxi stands ran­dom­ly. These stop taxis from en­ter­ing and ex­it­ing the stand. Speak­ing by tele­phone yes­ter­day, Bar­lett said mo­torists could now dri­ve freely as the pre­vi­ous arrange­ment had al­lowed dri­vers to block traf­fic on the road un­til a space in the taxi stand be­came va­cant.

She said there was al­so a plan to move some of the taxi stands, in­clud­ing Port-of-Spain and Curepe, off of High Street when the gov­ern­ment's pro­posed trans­port hub is built.

She said, "From time im­memo­r­i­al we have been say­ing that taxis wait­ing on one side of the road to cross over and fit in the mid­dle of the taxi stand cre­at­ed end­less traf­fic. Some­times they were per­pen­dic­u­lar on the road and while you were dri­ving this would force you to be in the line of traf­fic. This is an ex­cel­lent arrange­ment.

"Our plan is re­al­ly to move out some of the fixed taxi stands which do not bring cus­tomers to and from the city. Some just trans­port peo­ple to Port-of-Spain and Curepe so we can put them in an­oth­er lo­ca­tion like the trans­port hub. We con­grat­u­late every one who was in­volved."

San Fer­nan­do may­or Kaz­im Ho­sein ex­plained that the taxi as­so­ci­a­tion had asked him to im­ple­ment the new sys­tem be­cause dri­vers would cut in and out of the queues. He there­fore met with the Traf­fic Man­age­ment Di­vi­sion of the Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture to have the bar­ri­ers in­stalled.

How­ev­er, some taxi dri­vers com­plained that the space was too small and their doors hit the bar­ri­ers when opened. They said the bar­ri­ers on­ly worked well for those sev­en seater ve­hi­cles with slid­ing doors. KF


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