00:00Most of the roadsides are used, and when you use the roadsides for taxi stands, you reduce the capacity of
00:06the road network system.
00:08And many a times when you attend to regional cooperation meetings, the first thing you hear from different councils is
00:17to move the taxi stands out,
00:19move them to places outside of the city centre, not knowing that you are disadvantaging the vulnerable population.
00:29So we have to create that, we're battling with all the different issues, but when we make these decisions, we
00:39have to think about the vulnerable population first.
00:42I am not into the business of putting taxi stands outside of city centres.
00:48This is one of the few places in the world where we try to move public transportation service away instead
00:55of encouraging it,
00:56because our focus is always on private motor vehicle.
00:59The taxi service doesn't only help vulnerable people, but you have vulnerable people in the vehicle stuck in traffic.
01:08So there are vulnerable people all around that we have to consider, and I'm asking whether there is a possibility
01:17of compromise.
01:18The regional corporations might be saying, put them outside of the town hub or the city hub, as the case
01:27may be.
01:27As it is in Shogonas, we have one at a choke point.
01:32Surely there must be some way that the relevant parties can compromise and say, okay, let's just move it a
01:39few streets, it would be south.
01:42In the transportation engineering, vulnerable population is not people in their private cars.
01:48They are in comfort.
01:50They are not exposed to the environmental issues.
01:54Well, Mr. Pigott, no, I think I don't know that that might be correct.
02:00I mean, the terminology for me as a citizen certainly doesn't make sense.
02:06If I have somebody coming from dialysis at a hospital in Port Espanos in St. James or coming from cancer
02:15treatment
02:16and is in a car trying to get home to Kaparo or wherever they may be headed, to me that
02:24person should be considered vulnerable.
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