By RAMCY WAMA
BUSINESS HOUSES, trucking companies and PMV owners operating along the Tari part of the highlands highway are facing a nightmare.
The Tari section of the highway is becoming unsafe for public commuters as youths living along the highway put up continuous roadblocks, hijack vehicles and rob travelers.
As the physical conditions of the highway continues to deteriorate, trucking companies lose millions of kina in road accidents.
Business houses are loosing money when their goods are looted along the highway by youths.
“This road needs to be widened. We (PMV operators) are being held up every day on the road because the road is too narrow for us to make a quick escape,” a bus driver, John Tau explained.
Mr Tau said he ran PMV along the Tari Highway everyday and sometimes him and his passengers were held up and their belongings robbed in broad daylight.
“The frequent roadblocks and hold-ups are done along the Nipa section of the Highway and the stiff hill near Ambua Lodge,” he said.
“Youths collect huge fees on every vehicle that travels on deteriorating parts of the highway that they have patched with few gravels and soil,” Mr Tau said.
BUSINESS HOUSES, trucking companies and PMV owners operating along the Tari part of the highlands highway are facing a nightmare.
The Tari section of the highway is becoming unsafe for public commuters as youths living along the highway put up continuous roadblocks, hijack vehicles and rob travelers.
As the physical conditions of the highway continues to deteriorate, trucking companies lose millions of kina in road accidents.
Business houses are loosing money when their goods are looted along the highway by youths.
“This road needs to be widened. We (PMV operators) are being held up every day on the road because the road is too narrow for us to make a quick escape,” a bus driver, John Tau explained.
Mr Tau said he ran PMV along the Tari Highway everyday and sometimes him and his passengers were held up and their belongings robbed in broad daylight.
“The frequent roadblocks and hold-ups are done along the Nipa section of the Highway and the stiff hill near Ambua Lodge,” he said.
“Youths collect huge fees on every vehicle that travels on deteriorating parts of the highway that they have patched with few gravels and soil,” Mr Tau said.
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