Month: September 2022

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company, JUTC, is advising commuters that there will be an increase in the replacement of Smartercards effective Monday, September 26, 2022. This is due to a significant increase in the production cost of our Smartercards by our international supplier.

Concession passengers will now pay $400 up from $300.
Adult passengers will now pay $700 up from $500.

No fees are attached to new Smartercards. However, customers are free to determine how much they wish to load on the card.

The Smartercard is a convenient rechargeable system used by JUTC passengers to pay for their fares.

If you have any questions, please visit Customer Service, or call 876-948-4240.

 

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) has for over two decades, been relied on to transport large groups of people and carry our children to and from school. Our commuters are primarily from the working class and those sections of the population deemed most vulnerable. While safety is our utmost priority, we cannot predict collisions, accidents or incidents example stone throwing. However, we can and have been engaged in several mitigation programmes to reduce accident numbers.

Since April 2017 to March 2022, we have had a total of 3, 963 accidents which is inclusive of accidents where third parties are at fault and/or contributed to the accidents. Please see breakdown of the number of accidents in each year below.

• April 2017 to March 2018: 1,049
• April 2018 to March 2019: 1,033
• April 2019 to  March 2020: 891
• April 2020 to March 2021: 543
• April 2021 to March 2022: 447

 

An analysis of the data reveals a few things, firstly, that since April 2017 to March 2022, there has been a 57% reduction in accidents. Secondly, year over year, the number of accidents have been trending down from 1,049 in 2017 to 1,033 (16 less accidents) in 2018. Between 2019 and 2020, there was a 33% decline in accidents with 891 and 543 respectively. While for 2021 to March 2022, there were 447 accidents.