Shas­tri Boodan

Dri­vers op­er­at­ing pri­vate hire “PH” taxis in Cen­tral Trinidad re­port­ed in­creased busi­ness yes­ter­day, as a na­tion­wide maxi taxi strike dis­rupt­ed pub­lic trans­porta­tion ser­vices, leav­ing many com­muters scram­bling for al­ter­na­tive trav­el op­tions.

Sev­er­al PH dri­vers ad­mit­ted that they ex­pand­ed be­yond their usu­al vil­lage routes to serve ar­eas tra­di­tion­al­ly cov­ered by maxi-taxis, seek­ing to cap­i­talise on the trans­port gap cre­at­ed by the in­dus­tri­al ac­tion.