Kudos to you Lae office for move on PMVs

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I WOULD like to commend the Lae Traffic Registry and police for their recent actions to take un-roadworthy vehicles off the road, especially PMV buses. The PMV owners only want to make money and do not want to follow simple traffic rules and regulations.
Some of the owners complained that the authorities should have warned them and the public before carrying out the operation (The National, April 11) which only shows that they are living the past.
Shame on them.
They make a lot of money, providing a service which is unsafe to the users.
They are endangering the lives of the people.
Their buses should be impounded for good.
The drivers also often misbehave, teasing and shouting at young women that they see as if they own the road.
Whenever there is a traffic jam, they will try to squeeze their way through to get ahead.
I suspect that some of them do not have licences or even know how to read road signs.
I urged the police not to release the impounded vehicles and to impose tougher penalties on the operators.
Lae city looks cleaner with those buses off the road and there is no crowding or congestion at the bus stops.

Travelling Public, Lae

One thought on “Kudos to you Lae office for move on PMVs”

  • As of Jan 2019 it’s still a mess in Lae; most buses have bad wheel alignment, belch clouds of smoke due burnt out engines, smashed lights, bits falling off, smashed windscreens, clapped out shock absorbers, saggy uneven suspension etc. I was in a motor maintenance shop recently where this sign is posted on the wall: “Dear PMV operators, we will not issue roadworthy stickers without actually inspecting the vehicle”. This clearly implies that many service shops will do this, and the evidence is of course weaving all over the roads and in some cases as crushed smash wrecks on the roadside. The police vehicles are scarcely better; I was in the Royal Constabulary’s facilities at Lae recently investigating why the police took my driver’s license (“the safety sticker was 3 days out of date”); on the way out I inspected the safety stickers on 7 police vehicles and guess what? six of them were out of date.

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