Metro Mass increase its routes

The Metro Mass Transit (MMT), a public passenger transport company, is to add 15 more routes to its present routes nation-wide, before the end of the year.
The move which will bring to 265, the total number of routes, forms part of the company's wider corporate objective of opening up its routes in all the 170 district, municipal and metropolitan assemblies throughout the country by 2014.

One of the MMT's buses

The Head of Communications at the MMT, Mr Eric Boadi-Misa, told the Daily Graphic in an interview that the MMT's resolve to expand its route networks in the nation was meant to "provide affordable transportation throughout the country."
The company last week inaugurated two new routes at Mehame, a cocoa and food production town in the Asutifi South District of the Brong Ahafo and Enchi in the Western region.
Mr Boadi-Misa added that the opening up of more routes and the distribution of the company's passenger buses was done "according to the profitability of the area."
The transport fares of the company's passenger buses have not increased despite the 30 per cent increase in the ex-pump price of petroleum products which consequently saw fuel prices and transport fares going up.
Mr Boadi-Misa said the non-increment had caused the patronage of "our service to shoot up by 17 per cent."
According to him, the company was "capitalising" on some of the routes that its private competitors thought to be unprofitable to make up its loses.
He said "the MMT had now weaned itself of government subventions and we are at the moment operating without government support."
As part of reducing the company's accident levels, Mr Boadi-Misa said the MMT had trained 24 female drivers to add to the present team of competent drivers.
He said; “Females, as you may know, have the temperament to go through the shocks of the job unlike their male colleagues who are 'hot' especially when on the road."