AMMAN —
Vice-president of the
Syndicate of Owners of Taxi Offices, Internal and
External Travel, and Driving Training Centers, Mohammad Al-Hadid said that the
announced subsidy for public transportation has not been disbursed to public
transportation vehicles operating in Amman, according to a local news outlet.
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Hadid said on
Sunday that the subsidy has been distributed to all yellow cabs and travel
offices in the governorates, except for those in Amman.
He pointed out
that there are about 11,000 yellow cabs and 4,000 white cabs in Amman, which
have not received the subsidy until now.
He said that when
they visited the Land Transport Regulatory Commission to ask about distributing
the subsidy, they found out that the authority responsible for distributing it
on public transportation vehicles in Amman is the
Greater Amman Municipality (GAM).
Hadid noted that
“when the GAM was asked about the subsidy, we were told that the request would
be submitted to the prime minister’s office, and that there is no budget
allocated to support the sector at the present time.”
“We were surprised
at what is being talked about and the fact that allocating JD5 million to
support the public transportation sector is only for public vehicles operating
in the governorates,” he said.
Hadid added that
the GAM is considering raising public transport fares, due to the lack of a
sufficient budget to support the sector in Amman.
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