E-Buses Generate $33,000 in Five Weeks

The Belize City Council’s recently launched e-buses have generated thirty-three thousand dollars in the span of four weeks. That number is expected to increase over the same timespan because schools have reopened. Today, Mayor Wagner told reporters that four thousand commuters rode the buses during the first week of school. It is a significant amount of income that would otherwise go to the traditional transport system in the city. Mayor Wagner says people can no longer be subjected to substandard services.

 

Bernard Wagner, Mayor, Belize City

“Remember I gave out the preliminary figures for a five-week period and the five-week period saw fifteen thousand people utilizing the buses which generated something like thirty-three thousand. We have had a second week, following that five-week span and what I can tell you is that within one week, after that five-week span, we have had over four thousand people riding the buses in one week, after school had opened So that is like thirty percent of the previous four weeks in terms of ridership being generated in one week, so it is this push by the people of Belize City that they are very pleased with the E-transit program and they are clamoring for additional buses. You can’t subject people to substandard service. We are living in the twenty-first century. The reality is climate change is here. People are looking for cleaner energy. We are not certain what is driving this surge in respiratory illness, cancer, you never know. These are clean transportation, clean energy, clean buses, our people deserve only the best. I can’t be concerned about what was. I can only be concerned about what is and is to come.”