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Jamaica’s relationship with the Belgium’s VDL Jonckheere goes back about 20 years and has resulted in the supply of hundreds of buses to Jamaica’s JUTC (Jamaica Urban Transit Company). Just about all of them are Volvos (B7s and B12s). VDL buses account for the vast majority of the JUTC’s current fleet. Diversification is coming, and it is likely that the Belgian buses will face some competition from China – the Jamacan government recently set aside J$ 500 Million for the purchase of 35 Chinese Golden Dragon units to expand the fleet and serve the hillier routes in the nation’s capital region (these very recently entered service - I haven't had the chance to spot one yet). There have already been a couple of Yutongs added to the JUTC fleet recently. The Jamaica Urban Transit Company is Jamaica’s government owned public bus rapid transit company. It rolls out around 450 buses a day in the Kingston/St. Andrew region of Jamaica and its immediate vicinity. As the name suggests, the JUTC only operates in urban Jamaica – that’s basically the capital region of Kingston/St. Andrew itself plus Spanish Town and Portmore (two of the island’s larger cities that happen to be near Kingston). Service beyond this is very limited, which is a source of some political controversy on the island. The JUTC, as a state-owned entity, is taxpayer funded, but many of these taxpayers don’t live in or near Kingston and can’t use JUTC services. This concern has led to the JUTC exploring the establishment of new routes into rural areas beyond Kingston’s immediate vicinity. The expansion of Jamaica’s highway system should help. The JUTC faces a lot of competition from privately owned buses and taxis, and that competition also generates some political controversy. Despite all of that, the JUTC has grown substantially in recent years and, at just 17 years old, seems a more firmly entrenched Jamaican institution now. |
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Source | Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) Volvo B7R |
Author | Jason Lawrence from New York |
Camera location | 18° 00′ 26.34″ N, 76° 47′ 06.2″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 18.007316; -76.785056 |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by JLaw45 at https://flickr.com/photos/27665395@N05/34237145383 (archive). It was reviewed on 7 January 2019 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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