BUS FARE REDUCTION ONLY FOR PETROL VEHICLES – BTOAZ
Bus and Taxi Owners Association of Zambia (BTOAZ) Chairman Sydney Chewe says bus fare reductions will only apply to petrol-powered vehicles, following the recent drop in fuel prices.
According to the association, the reduction in petrol prices has surpassed the agreed threshold of K2 required to trigger a fare adjustment, while diesel prices have not met that mark.
As a result, fares for diesel-powered vehicles will remain unchanged.
Diamond TV
You are very stupid and idiot let government put a barn on your vehicles
Whaat?
Only petrol powered vehicles to reduce fares? Hell! How does that work?
Vyama threshold ni vanu what we know is pump price of fuel has come down tremendously so should the bus/transportation charges.
This is thinking backwards, are you saying a diesel bus going to Lilanda will maintain the same price while a petrol bus going to the same destination will reduce the price, is that not confusion.
We are sick and tired of this manipulation, can the minister concerned step in so that the fuel reductions that we have witnessed consistently over the last few months can be seen to benefit the general citizenry. Whenever there is an upward adjustment in the pump price, transporters don’t hesitate to hike the fares. Now that the pump prices are coming down, they are talking of thresholds!!! Nonsense!!!
I have always said. Its not the associations its the Minister. When the Minister is always at the airport seeking ways to apease the Head of State yet does zero in his role.
RTSA board has been recomposed. Have anyone of you seen any change? No. Desiel has had a more significant fall than any fossil fuel. So when these association are led by people with a very low aptitude this is the result. But what has come out is that non registered buses are on the road. Who owns those buses?
The Ministry through RTSA is too busy doing nothing that “sanity has gone to the dogs”. As the Public we are subject to unregulise sector where like the mining sector anyone does anything cause the efforces are so “deeply entrenched” they fail to be gate keepers. Route leaders are politically inclinded ask yourself where the provinical leaders get “their daily bread”. Aisha….you promised to clean up. Your minister is a failure. Why should our lives be held at ransome for people who in their own constituency have done nothing but “shake their large stomachs, at party functions as they dance away? Is that development?