Taxi Drivers To Terminate At Portmore Mall Transport Centre

Taxi drivers who previously terminated at the Portmore Mall are now required to park at the newly built Portmore Mall Transport Centre.

Manager for Communication and Customer Service at the Transport Authority (TA), Petra-Kene Williams, told JIS News that the change became effective on April 1.

The new transport centre, located on Dawkins Drive, was established by the Portmore Municipal Corporation.

“The Portmore Mall Transport Centre is a welcome addition to the transportation centres is St. Catherine, and we have changed the road licences for operators,” Ms. Williams said.

She is also calling on illegal operators along the routes to regularise their activities as “we will be monitoring the situation closely”.

For hackney carriage operators who use their vehicles as route taxis, Ms. Williams said “we are warning these operators that it is in their best interest to submit an application for change to their licence type in order to become compliant with the law”.

For his part, Mayor of Portmore, Leon Thomas, said the $2-million Portmore Mall Transport Centre was established to ease congestion is the area.

He informed that it was the operators who requested that the authorities provide a facility in order to prevent them from terminating on the roadway.

He said that the centre is well lit and has adequate security. “I am appealing to all the taxi operators to use the facility and stem the [congestion] problem that exists on Dawkins Drive,” the Mayor told JIS News.