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Sunday, March 16, 2025

PTSC com­mem­o­rates 50th an­niver­sary...

Free bus rides for all tomorrow

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As a form of say­ing thank you to its loy­al pas­sen­gers for their sup­port over the last 50 years, the Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) is of­fer­ing free bus rides all day long to­mor­row.

So said act­ing gen­er­al man­ag­er of PTSC, Carl Ramdeo. He said that by an Act of Par­lia­ment the PTSC came in­to be­ing on June 7, 1965 and to­mor­row they would be cel­e­brat­ing 50 years of ex­is­tence.

He added: "We will like to cel­e­brate with the na­tion on this sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone so we will be ask­ing pa­trons to board our ef­fi­cient ser­vice with no tick­ets on the day.

"We are call­ing the day 'Thank you trav­ellers day.' Peo­ple will be able to ac­cess the bus­es from the first trip ear­ly in the morn­ing un­til the fi­nal one in the night.

"We have kept up to date and rel­e­vant with trans­port in this coun­try and just re­cent­ly we launched 36 CNG bus­es with the en­vi­ron­ment in mind.

"We at PTSC are very con­cerned over our coun­try's car­bon foot­print and hence we de­cid­ed to make the move to CNG," Ramdeo said.

He boast­ed of the cor­po­ra­tion's "en­vi­able record in terms of safe­ty."

About PTSC

The es­tab­lish­ment of the PTSC arose out of the re­port of a work­ing par­ty on bus trans­port in T&T ap­point­ed by gov­ern­ment on No­vem­ber 21, 1964.

As a re­sult of its find­ings on De­cem­ber 2, 1964, the then gov­ern­ment de­cid­ed that pub­lic (or state) own­er­ship of the bus trans­port in­dus­try should take ef­fect from Jan­u­ary 1, 1965.

The Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion came in­to be­ing on May 1, 1965 as a re­sult of the Trans­port Ser­vice Act 2 of that year..


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