Forced to wear facemask in my car

THE EDITOR: I am in the ridiculous position of having to wear a face mask while with my wife in my car because the governments over the past few decades have turned a blind eye to an illegal activity that has been allowed to flourish and become the norm in this country.

I write of the PH system where private vehicles are used as taxis to the point where one hardly sees genuine H sedan taxis on the road. The private ones even occupy the stands that should be used for the registered taxis, which have difficulty getting spaces in the stands that should be for their use.

Instead of hearing about something being done to get those PH taxis off the road and having the owners/drivers go through the process of getting their vehicles registered so they can ply legally as taxis, the Attorney General is telling us that we – the family members who come from the same households – are the ones who, in order to conform to the face-mask law, must understand that the police would have a difficult time distinguishing between genuine family members in family cars and passengers in PH cars. This could not be more ridiculous.

The illegal PH system has all but put the legal taxis out of business since many passengers ignore the real taxis and flag down the PH ones, even while our PTSC buses run practically empty.

On that PTSC score: why is it that potential bus travellers must go to some place in town to buy bus tickets in advance since they cannot pay their fares on entering the buses?

As someone who would prefer to use the bus whenever my car is not available to me, why should I have to keep a stack of bus tickets on hand instead of being able to pay on entering the vehicle?

CLYDE ALPHONSO

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