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I think that the Honourable Minister was hoodwinked

May 02, 2009 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
The passing of legislation banning the playing of music in public transportation was wonderful news to the sensible traveling public. There was much relief when the police began removing music sets and radios from these vehicles.
The outrageous writings along with the sensible ones went. The public began to realize the peace and decency in traveling in public with public transportation.
But this bubble soon burst when the Honourable Minister of Home Affairs apparently decided that the public must always have something to complain about. He compromised with the drivers and owners of public transportation to keep their CD players and radios, but they would be doing so in a little less noisy way.
I think that the Honourable Minister was hoodwinked into believing that the issue was the amplification of the music. Mr. Minister, this was only part of the issue for which the public was voicing its outrage. The central issue was and unfortunately still is, the vulgarity that commuters are exposed to in the vehicles. It should be noted that the noise level without the additional boom boxes is still cause for concern.
If the law stipulated no music then let there be no music, please. I know that all the pros and cons were debated in the house and the bill was unanimously passed. Why must it be watered down to satisfy the appetites of the misguided?
School children will still be subjected to the crassness displayed by many operators and conductors, elderly and decent people will still be made to request that the music be turned down or taken off.
I think that the operators of public transportation have won over the traveling public because the minister believes that everyone must be happy and pleased regardless.
And talking in the same vein, someone in authority saw it fit to encourage the vendor at the Diamond junction to stop his music because of the distraction it creates at the busy intersection. This was adhered to for a few weeks. Now the music is back again.
I am alarmed at the way the authorities address concerns – legitimate concerns. There needs to be a permanent remedy to these ills or else we are going nowhere in addressing lawlessness.
Name and Address withheld

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