All Public Service Vehicles will from mid next month be expected to have a new colour code unique per province in line with a new law announced by government.
The Statutory Instrument No 39 of 2013 of the Road Transport Act of 2002 has been amended to include new colour schemes per province.
Transport, Communications, Works and Supply Minister Yamfwa Mukanga said the reflective colours per province will address concerns of pirate taxis or cars that are used for the conveyance of passengers on hire as taxis without being licensed.
Mr. Mukanga told a media briefing that the new regulation identifies a public service vehicle by its colour code, registration mark, identify and fleet number.
The Transport, Communications, Works and Supply Minister said public service vehicles on the Copperbelt will be painted in Copper, Central Province will have Yellow and Eastern Province will have Emerald Green while Luapula and Lusaka provinces will adopt Sky Blue and Orange respectively.
Northern Province will have Red, Northwestern will take up Silver, Muchinga will have Wispy/Lime Green while Southern Province will have purple-Amethyst and Western Province will have Light Brown.
He said specific changes in the regulation include the need for all passenger public services to have a reflective ribbon fixed which shall be ten centimeters in width, pasted from the front to the rear on the mid-section of both sides of the vehicles.
Mr. Mukanga said taxis will be further fitted with an illuminating lamp and display designated tax fleet code ion the side door.
He said operators who own a fleet of more than 30 vehicles may apply to the Director of the Road transport and Safety Agency for a grace period to implement the new regulation.
Mr. Mukanga said luxury coaches will be exempted from the above provisions of colour specification.
He said the new regulations take effect from August 15 2013.
And pf think this is a big achievement, changing colours of buses when other pressing issues of vendors,accident farming are not being touch is fallacy. we want to feel safe in our country, we waant clean enviroment, improved water reticulation, no loadshedding, food on our table
How many times are you going change these colours ? Hope this is the last time.
Naba Saulosi sees a problem here. Then there must be something seriously wrong with the policy.
This is July and the regulations are effective August, that’s enough Mr Minister ayi? …………..as if the govt is funding the exercise, typical !!!!!
PF is running MAD!!!!!!! Don’t they have things to do??
Total madness, these foolish chaps from luapula, dangerous criminals
Ukupentakwama bus takwakalete development
Development?
Exactly my thoughts. Some colours do not even carry any meaning e.g, purple. When the gods want to punish someone, they start by making the person go mad. Efi nomba.
The reason is not convincing Mr. minister
And this is the 90 day development they campaigned on? This Minister is useless. What development will colours achieve? This is the same rubish that is being followed by the so_called Ratsa. To just put 2 spot lights on your car is an offence in this country. Cars are already built with reflectors on the tail lights straight from factories from very advanced countries. you are made to put rubish stickers on your car. Imagine this on a brand new (from the box) car (not the “new” 10 yr old cars). What country is this? Where did we lagg behind? Now a Minister is here anouncing colours for buses & cabs. Thats the price you pay for puting dinosaurs in Govt, who just end up opening a sick bay in State house. These pipo shld ve been retired. SAD, DISGRACEFUL SO-CALLED LEADERS
tell us if one of the big pigs is owning a paint company or has shares………stop fooling us.
Yaba pf twachula i just had an orange ribbon on my taxi i should make a budget of buying a purple ribbon.kaya manje
This Govt is a big joke!
Priorities. This one can be on the lower end of priorities. I remember the colours green, green & white, then blue. These colouring achieved trivial outcomes. Piracy was still on cards especially with corrupt minds of the custodians of colour codes then. Whats really new in colouring this time?
no wounder these people have be going to cuba just coping the cuban style are we safe here i wounder!!
When i think of luxury coaches being exempt i think its a good thing but i also think they had GBM in mind, could be coincidental. He has Germin as his company for luxury coaches.
GBM has sold his buses sorry he owns trucks now when you see Arizona Trucks its his.
Thanks
Ba ngwele!
Laws cannot be made by some lazy minister waking up one morning deciding he wants a color change!! Were stake-holders ever consulted?? When was it discussed in Parliament??? Stake -holders have the right to protest & boycott this silly instrument – they can better spend their money on improving the safety & road-worthiness of their vehicles rather than running funny colors around!!! So what will happen to private vehicle owners who already have their vehicles in these colors?? Will they be forced to repaint them to other colors as not to confuse the public, RTSA, police??? Leave the present color!! If it is pirates they are targeting, simply enforce that vehicles which are not public transport, CAN’T SPORT the public transport color!!!!!
The colour on public vehicles was MMD party colours for your info so PF want to have colours free from party lines. just observe in most government buildings schools, Hospitals mostly the colours used was blue and white for MMD even Mobile hospitals they are in MMD colours so its not just a matter of changing and mind you SATA was MMD so they know why they used MMD colours its was to constantly remind people of MMD so this are polictics to wipe MMD out of the picture for GOOD so its better to have neutral colours unlike the current scenario though a zambia flag colours would have been better.
LT what moderation???
Bus & taxi operators, in protest, keep the colors you have , park you vehicles for a week or even months, nuleash pirate taxis & see what happens to public transport & the efficiency of zambian workforce, esp in an environment where all subsidies are removed – THIS GOVT IS ASKING YOU “TO EMPTY YOUR POCKETS” rather than their famous slogan ” More money in your pockets!!” Before long, more protestors will join in, as this govt seems to want HUNGRY, & MORE POORER Citizens TO WALK TO WORK, simply becoz the “EMPEROR WOULD LIKE TO SEE A RAINBOW OF COLORS AS HE DRIVES ROUND THE COUNTRY!!”
tell them bauze.my rubbish decisions
ZOONA AI?
….And when will RTSA outlaw the practice of using tinted windows for driver and front passenger windows…. for all I know the driver of any vehicke must be visible at all times…otherwise you would never know if the persons behind the tinted windows are criminals.
And every time you relocate you have to paint your fleet? what a daft idea
I thought this man was wise and intelligent especially when he was working for the mines. He is now a minister and has become a ” devil’s saint ”