The deputy managing director of the State Transport Corporation (STC) has explained that the limited number of vehicles contributes largely to the difficulty commuters face during the festive season.
In an interview with Alfa Ali on the Orange Sunrise, Mr Nurudeen Hamidan, Deputy Manager for Finance and Administration at the State Transport Corporation, explained that while the STC sympathised with people in Kumasi for the transportation stress, especially during the Christmas season, the STC could not allocate buses to alleviate the stress due to the limited number of buses at its disposal.
“People would have to wait 30 minutes, one hour for a vehicle, and when vehicles are not available, some spend even longer hours before they get to town, while others spend long hours before they go home”, he sympathized.
He also explained the system the STC is running in Accra to ease traffic this Christmas season.
“We went back to the drawing board and designed a system: when the masses come from Kumasi around 3 p.m., we don’t load them back—we just deploy them to the city. I can see the impact. People are happy, and fares remain the same. It is bringing relief,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly has provided 18 buses at strategic places within the Central Business District of Kumasi. The buses are scheduled to transport people to various traffic-prone areas in the region.
KMA Intervention
Madam Henrietta Aboagya, the Public Relations Officer for the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, told Orange Fm that this was part of efforts aimed at easing traffic pressures and also aimed to help citizens avoid paying unapproved fares that some trotro buses charge when traffic mounts.
She added that the assembly was working with the police and military to make sure that trotro mates were charging approved fares and warned that those who defaulted would have their vehicles impounded.
By: Janice Opoku-Agyemang
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