KINGSTON,
JAMAICA: Minister of Transport, Hon Daryl Vaz has given the
Transport Authority the ‘greenlight’ to make eleven (11) additional routes
available for Route Taxis to operate legally in the Kingston Metropolitan
Transportation Region (KMTA), effective July 2025.
Here’s a listing of the additional routes:
Operators desirous of plying
these additional routes are invited to license their vehicles though the
respective Taxi Associations. Here’s a list of the Transport Authority’s Taxi
Associations: https://www.ta.org.jm/taxi-associations.
The Transport Authority is an Agency of the
Government charged with the responsibility for the licensing of all public and
commercial vehicles, and the regulating and monitoring of Public Passenger
Vehicles throughout the island of Jamaica.
It has a vision to
provide effective and efficient monitoring and regulatory services that
facilitate a people-centred, safe, orderly and reliable public passenger
transport system.
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