Desperate commuters are resorting to illegal kombis, pirate
taxis and private vehicles as Zupco is finding it difficult to provide enough
buses.
Rather than wait to get home, especially for those
connecting, commuters end up using unauthorised transport, while touts at
illegal pick-up points have re-emerged.
Some kombis and pirate taxis owners have since removed
registration numbers.
While the police have extensive roadblocks leading into the
city centre, the illegal transporters choose routes that skirt the city centre,
such as directly from suburbs to Mbare or the industrial sites, or they use
side roads to get round the roadblocks.
On some roads, where police have set up a roadblock near a
stream bridge or other point where there are no diversion routes, passengers
are dumped a few hundred metres before the roadblock.
Kombis plying routes that lead to Mbare from high density
suburbs of Kuwadzana, Glen View, Budiriro, Mabvuku, Southlea Park, Chitungwiza
and Glen Norah are seen travelling during early morning, a time when there
would be no police check-out points
In Chitungwiza, kombis and mushika-shika owners are also
plying from the dormitory town’s locations to Makoni Shopping Centre. Herald
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