At the beginning of March this year more than 20 vehicles belonging to unregistered private transport operators were impounded by Bulawayo Traffic Police in a bid to eliminate pirate taxis.The vehicles are still at the Vehicle Department Department (VID).
The Motoring and Transportation Act give rights to the traffic police to arrest all unregistered pirate transport operators if they do not register their vehicles.
According to the Chronicle of 6 March 2012 police said they were going to finalize the issue of route cards that would be conducted with the Bulawayo City Council (BCC).Superintendent Henry Mhlanga was also quoted on the same paper saying that these route cards would be given to registered operators at designated loading points and would be produced at any roadblock along the way.The Bulawayo Public Transport Association (Bupta) were impressed by this stance taken by the traffic police since these unregistered transport operators were taking away business from them.
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