Positive drug test for prescription drugs, such as opiates, are common, as well as positive tests for ganja. There were also numerous reports of very dangerous driving and speeding, and several near-misses of people and children who were almost hit by buses as they got off. Some complaints were about taxis taking people to the wrong destinations and charging them anyway, and there are documented cases of taxi drivers as well as tour and bus drivers being rude to their passengers. The documents revealed eye-watering over-charging by taxi drivers in one case a driver charged a couple $200 to take them from the port to the Crystal Caves in North Side. Meanwhile, George Town drivers were most likely to divert off their routes to poach passengers. The record of the complaints is dominated by drivers who have been reported, often by their own colleagues as well as passengers, for not completing the formal routes, veering off the official routes and not checking in or being properly dispatched by the public transport bus depot.ĭrivers going to the eastern districts of East End and North Side were the worst offenders for not completing their routes, in some cases leaving passengers bound for the furthest districts stranded in Bodden Town. More than 380 complaints were made last year, many of which reflect a worrying amount of animosity between the public bus drivers themselves, as well as between them, the tour bus operators and taxi drivers who were all fighting for passengers, compounded by what appears to be a growth in the number of illegal operators. The documents were originally released following a freedom of information (FOI) request and have now become available to the public. From drivers falling asleep at the wheel and crashing while carrying visitors to fighting and squabbling over poaching passengers, many of the men and women behind the wheels of the public transport system appear to be falling far short of the Caymankind brand promoted by the Department of Tourism. (CNS): Documents released by the tourism ministry detailing hundreds of reported complaints made about bus and taxi drivers throughout 2017 paint a picture of chaos within the Cayman Islands Public Transport Unit.
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