The Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) says it de­ployed ad­di­tion­al bus­es and pri­ori­tised trans­porta­tion for CSEC and CAPE stu­dents fol­low­ing the re­duc­tion in maxi taxi ser­vices yes­ter­day.

In a me­dia re­lease, the PTSC said it re­spond­ed im­me­di­ate­ly to the dis­rup­tion by im­ple­ment­ing an ac­cel­er­at­ed main­te­nance pro­gramme over the week­end to en­sure ad­di­tion­al bus­es were re­paired, ser­viced and avail­able for ser­vice from yes­ter­day.

The cor­po­ra­tion said ex­tra bus­es were de­ployed from ear­ly yes­ter­day, with pri­or­i­ty giv­en to high-de­mand cor­ri­dors and ar­eas where com­muters were ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the great­est chal­lenges ac­cess­ing trans­porta­tion.

“The cor­po­ra­tion’s fo­cus was to en­sure that com­muters trav­el­ling to work, school and oth­er es­sen­tial ac­tiv­i­ties ex­pe­ri­enced the least pos­si­ble in­con­ve­nience,” the PTSC said, adding pas­sen­ger de­mand was sig­nif­i­cant­ly high­er than on a nor­mal week­day as mem­bers of the pub­lic sought al­ter­na­tive trans­porta­tion op­tions due to the maxi taxi protest.

It added that tem­po­rary op­er­a­tional ad­just­ments, in­clud­ing ad­di­tion­al trips and ser­vice en­hance­ments on se­lect­ed routes, were re­viewed where op­er­a­tional­ly fea­si­ble.

The cor­po­ra­tion said pri­or­i­ty was giv­en to trans­port­ing CSEC and CAPE stu­dents to sup­port their time­ly ac­cess to ex­am­i­na­tions.

“PTSC re­mains com­mit­ted to serv­ing the pub­lic as ef­fec­tive­ly as pos­si­ble and ex­tends sin­cere thanks to all cus­tomers for their con­tin­ued pa­tience, un­der­stand­ing and sup­port dur­ing this time.”