De­spite leav­ing their homes ear­li­er than usu­al to try and work around the maxi taxi strike, com­muters were still left frus­trat­ed and dis­ap­point­ed yes­ter­day, as they wait­ed for as long as two hours be­cause there were not enough Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) bus­es to help al­le­vi­ate the back­log of com­muters.

But com­muters weren’t the on­ly peo­ple af­fect­ed, as small busi­ness­es and taxi dri­vers work­ing along ad­ja­cent routes al­so com­plained of an over­all slow­down in ac­tiv­i­ty due to the protest.

Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route near the Mt Lam­bert in­ter­sec­tion short­ly af­ter 6 am, where small groups of peo­ple were al­ready gath­ered on the side­walks along the east­bound and west­bound lanes, await­ing maxi taxis.