Cummuters, including senior citizens and children, have to endure the constant trauma of standing for hours. - File

The Editor, Sir:

Ministry of Transport, Transport Authority, Mr. Ezroy Millwood, drivers and conductors, congratulations for ensuring that passengers received your outstanding service.

Please allow me space in your valuable newspaper to bring tidings of great joy. The admirable services that the passengers have received from the beginning of this school term deserve several awards.

As a result of the exceptional service, students and labourers arrive at school and work tardily; the sick are deprived of getting urgent medical attention; and the physically challenged, senior citizens and children have to endure the constant trauma of standing for hours.

Who offers the service? Who pays for the service? When will there be complete understanding of this? It is wonderful to wake up each morning at 4:30, prepare oneself for work and then board an illegal taxi or minivan.

This motor vehicle will take you to the self-named terminus otherwise known as Lawrence Tavern. By this the time, it is about 5:30 a.m. The aroma from the piles of garbage and the dependable verbal assaults from the 'loader' men and conductors are gracefully accepted by the passengers.

The affectionate hugs and kisses from the sun's rays suggest that the morning is far spent.

Passengers are commonly begged kindly to wait from 5:30 a.m. until 8:00 a.m. to facilitate the students of Oberlin High School.

Endless trauma

This request is accepted with humility and gratitude. On the contrary, if you are an aggressor or an extrovert virago you may try to board a minivan that will take you to Constant Spring, where the trauma continues.

Let us not forget the season at hand. It is Christmas, a time for giving and receiving.

However, the passengers have received and it is their desire to return the favour. The drivers and conductors will receive gifts for their excellent service; the Transport Authority will receive a gift for its daily monitoring and patrolling of the buses and terminuses. Mr. Millwood, will also receive his gift for ensuring that the bus drivers and conductors are trained and qualified.

Furthermore, travelling on the National Transport Co-op Society buses was pleasurable and with the minute options, we are obliged to continue.

I am, etc.,

TEISHA CROSSBY

Main Street

Glengoffe

St. Catherine