Com­muters faced sig­nif­i­cant dis­rup­tions this morn­ing as the Trinidad and To­ba­go Maxi Taxi As­so­ci­a­tion be­gan a three-day protest over is­sues in­clud­ing speed lim­its.

By 6.30 am, the Port of Spain City Gate trans­port hub, usu­al­ly crowd­ed with Red Band max­is, stood vir­tu­al­ly emp­ty. Sim­i­lar scenes un­fold­ed at the Mor­vant and San Juan junc­tions, where scores of com­muters gath­ered while seek­ing al­ter­na­tive trans­port.

The dis­rup­tion fol­lowed the as­so­ci­a­tion's de­ci­sion to with­draw ser­vice from to­day un­til Wednes­day.