KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC—The Andrew Holness administration will invest more than J$2.63 billion to purchase 100 buses to boost the fleet at the Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC).
The Cabinet has approved the award of a US$18,900,000 contract to Von’s Motor and Company Limited for supplying and delivering the Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses.
Minister disclosed this without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister responsible for Information, Robert Morgan, during Wednesday’s post-Capost-cabinet briefing at Jamaica House.
Speaking in the House of Representatives earlier in the year, Transportation Minister Daryl Vaz said the CNG-fueled buses are expected to arrive in time for the start of the 2024/25 academic year in September.
He said the buses will be part of the 300 mixed-energy units that the Government will acquire over the next three years to boost the State-run JUTC’s fleet and address needs in the public transportation system.
The JUTC operates over 70 routes in the Corporate Area and in the towns of Portmore and Spanish Town in the central parish of St Catherine.
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