The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), has advised that owing to the extension of this evening’s curfew, its services will be available until 8:30 pm, to facilitate essential workers who may leave work late and need to do last minute shopping.
The bus company says it will be operating a limited service for essential and frontline staff, during the seven no-movement days, which will take effect on Sunday, August 22, 2021.
Corporate Communications Manager Cecil Thoms, says the service will be available from 5 am to 7:30 pm during the period of the no-movement days.
“We have revised our operations due to the reduced demand for our service that is expected during the no-movement period. Essential and frontline workers can access our revised operating schedules on our website www.jutc.gov.jm and our social media platforms for information on the various routes,” Mr. Thoms said.
On days when the curfew is at 8 pm, JUTC says the last trip for all routes will be at 7:30pm.
“We are encouraging commuters to take note of the curfew times and NOT to wait until the appointed time to get their business done. Let me also say that on the no-movement days, we will be operating with a skeleton staff, with only essential workers being on the ground to include bus drivers and members of our maintenance team,” Mr Thoms continued.
Meanwhile, the JUTC’s ticket office will be closed on no-movement days, but will reopen on Wednesday, August 25, 2021 for commuters wishing to top-up or block lost or stolen SmarterCards.
As such commuters are being urged to top up their SmarterCards in advance.