Moroccan companies interested in the field of road safety have called to tighten the observation of the buses within the dispositive stations and the safety dams before Eid Al -Fitr, to ensure a large percentage of them to exceed the eligible number of passengers, taking advantage of the major threat of passenger safety and benchmarks. “”
These associations with which the Hespress electronic newspaper confirmed that “the prevalence of many buses, including mainly drivers and their assistants, the logic of profit on the obsession of guaranteeing the safety and comfort of passengers, always leads them to exploit the religious opportunity to transport passengers to travel or ensure a permanent plastic book.”
The same organizations underlined “the need for sanctions for offenders to increase, in particular the application of the withdrawal of licenses and tacos, in order to dissuade them, and besieged the mentioned practice which reflects the efforts aimed at reducing the percentage of traffic accidents in Morocco.”
In this context, Elias Sleeb, head of the National Observatory for Road Safety, said that “during Eid Al -Fitr, as in the rest of the religious occasions, the problem of high pressure on buses is still underline, given access to citizens working in cities other than their cities of origin to spend these occasions with road safety”, adding that ” Road, on the top of the situation.
In a declaration to the Hespress electronic newspaper, Suleib added that “the days before Eid Al -Fitr attended the entry of new safeguard buses to work, although they are often exhausted and are not suitable for transport”, “benefiting” companies benefit from the unbridled desire of citizens to spend Eid with families without lending the slightest interest in their road safety “.
The civil actor himself explained that “going beyond the legal limit authorized by passengers is recorded by a large number of buses on such occasions, which reflects the work of the ministry on the reduction of traffic accidents and the application of the blog,” stressing that “in the absence of surveillance, a large number of bus passengers is recorded in the path between the chairs or on a plastic booklet”.
Given this, the same spokesman said: “As a civil society, we call on the responsible authorities, that the elements of road surveillance, national security or the royal gendarmerie have to intensify their efforts during the remaining two days on EID AL -Fitr”, which underlines the need for “complete surveillance on the buses of all the interlocutors will be tightened”.
In this regard, Sleib stressed that “passengers who are added to the eligible number often join the bus outside road stations,” emphasizing “the need to pay attention and manage these practices firmly in order to preserve the life of citizens, and to help reduce the percentage of the accusations of the Ministry of Transport and Logistics and the National Road Safety Agency.”
For his part, Mohamed Heimi, president of the National Association for Road Development and Road Safety, said that “the buses take advantage of the citizen’s desire to spend Eid Al -Fitr with his family and press it in order to accept trips to sit on a plastic box or stand in the way inside the bus, and often at the same exorbitant prices as the rest of the bus.”
In a declaration to the Hespress electronic newspaper, Himi stressed that “what is remarkable in this phenomenon is the fact that the buses concerned by the violation of the number authorized by passengers transmit more than one dam of the royal gendarmerie and national security”, regretted the number of passengers. “”
The spokesman warned that “this problem causes many incidents which leave a significant number of victims injured and death”, explaining that “exceeding the eligible number of passengers increases the bus load, so that the pressure on its wheels and its engine increases, the last one of which increases”.
The same author pointed out that “the bus often leaves the standing station with the legal number of passengers on board, but the driver and his assistant strive to transport other passengers across the road”, stressing that “these practices require the thickness of the penalties against the violers, like their actions”.
