Recently, I was at the bus park in Bo trying to travel to Freetown on board one of the aged buses of the Sierra Leone Road Transport Corporation (SLRTC).<\/p>\n
As we were scrambling in the long ticket queue trying to buy tickets, the driver started the bus engine which emitted a huge cloud of thick black smoke that repelled all of us. The smoke suffocated almost all of us.<\/p>\n
This was a crystal clear sign that the bus was slowly becoming non-roadworthy and if not carbonized now, it will become useless to Sierra Leoneans.<\/p>\n
And that bus is not the only SLRTC bus that emits such smoke thereby polluting our environment, many of them discharge clouds of smoke while struggling on the highways.<\/p>\n
Woe betide you to be near the driver when he engages the gear, you will almost become deafened by the cacophony.<\/p>\n
Surely, the SLRTC buses are wearing out, in fact, many have worn out. Just go to the bus depot at the PWD junction and you will see the scraps there.<\/p>\n
No need to tell government that the SLRTC needs brand new buses as the Tata buses have become too old for the comfort of Sierra Leoneans.<\/p>\n
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