Bus and Taxi Association of Zambia has called for the expansion of the operation areas for Buses in Lusaka adding that the number of buses has increased while the operating area remains the same.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Zambian Business Times -ZBT- Peter Phiri the Deputy National Secretary General for the Bus and Tax Association of Zambia said this is the case that has been there for a long period of time but no change has been seen, the association is limited on what they can do to solve the problem.
“Zambia has gone through a number of changes but no improvement of Lima Tower, the associations have been pushing for the local government to come on board and all they are saying is that they are working on the matter, but the association has seen no change.” Said Phiri.
“On our end, it causes labor because the motion of the general public is that our drivers are of the bad behavior of parking busses on the freedom way and dropping people on the way, these are the results of Lima tower becoming too small to accommodate all the busses, adding to that these complaints have called for more meetings
Phiri said as for the association it’s a subtraction because the drives begin to park controversial while it’s not there fault
Phiri urged the government to look into the issue stations more especially Lima Tower which he claims it has a lot of issues.
“The issues of Lima Tower started as far as MMD and now we are in UPND and we are still talking of the same issue, the government clears land directed to the local stations, even if there is limited land but that’s why we call on the council and something can be done.” Said Phiri.
Phiri said, “We had a meeting with RTSA, The Council, the Zambia Police and the Association talking about the same problem of no space but now it takes an hour to enter into town and as a result they drop people on the road.”
