Port Moresby City will undergo a major overhaul in its’ public transport system when the sector is to be corporatized for better service delivery.
Transport Minister Malakai Tabar made this announcement in Port Moresby today.
This is in preparation for the 2015 Pacific Games and the 2018 APEC meeting.
Public transport in the country needs better organisation and coordination in’Order to provide efficient and effective services to the travelling public.
With major regional and international events to be hosted here in PNG, the transport department is coming up with strategies to improve the public transport system in the count, especially in Port Moresby.
Under this new arrangement, taxi and PMV bus services will be asked to affiliate into registered PMV companies and run under the respective company names.
Twenty-five seater buses will be replaced with coaches to ensure reliability and efficiency given the current situation, where buses do not complete their designated routes, instead ferrying passengers halfway and overcharging them.
Minister Tabar said these plans will be achieved when there is a good partnership between the department and PMV operators, and urged them to co-operate with the department to bring about these changes.
Department Secretary Roy Mumu also highlighted the functions of the new Road Transport Authority, which was recently passed in parliament and is now in the process of being gazetted.
Most land transport agencies, including MVIL and the National Road Safety Council, will now merge into this new agency and will correct most of the land transport problems the nation is currently experiencing.
The department also has plans to give life to the Small Crafts Act which has been idle for some time since it got passed.
Minister Tabar said many people die in the open sea each year, compared to land and air transport accidents, but these incidents go unreported; more attention should be given to this sector, particularly the use of small crafts.
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