Given the capital’s perennial weekday traffic gridlock, and the increasing frequency of the phenomenon across Jamaica, Transport Minister Daryl Vaz’s promise of a revised national transportation policy is a matter of urgency.  It is also important to the country’s broader economic development.
Many people might argue that what is required is not a revised or updated version of anything, but just a plan. Which does not mean that credible concepts were drawn up for Jamaica’s transportation sector. Rather, there hasn’t, in recent decades, been a structured and coordinated national policy for how Jamaicans commute in relation to where they live, work, conduct business, play or recreate.