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The Route 2 Maxi Taxi As­so­ci­a­tion says it is trou­bled by con­di­tions at the San­gre Grande Maxi Hub on Brier­ley Street, San­gre Grande. As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Bren­ton Knight claims no one seems con­cerned about the dri­vers who use the hub and by ex­ten­sion the com­muters.

Speak­ing to re­porters dur­ing a news con­fer­ence at the hub at 6 am to high­light the is­sues, Knight said among the ma­jor prob­lems are a lack of se­cu­ri­ty, in­ad­e­quate light­ing in the build­ing and the com­pound, no toi­let fa­cil­i­ties, no ac­cess to pipe-borne wa­ter, un­kept drains breed­ing mos­qui­toes, in­suf­fi­cient and un­san­i­tary seat­ing, and in­ad­e­quate shel­ter. He said when it rains, com­muters get wet and are forced to hud­dle un­der a small cov­ered stand.

Knight asked, “The Min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port, Ro­han Sinanan, who has held this po­si­tion for the past sev­en years, was al­lo­cat­ed $10 bil­lion. And yet, this is the con­di­tion of the hub?”