Tackling Touts By Limiting Purchase Of Express Bus Tickets

from Bernama

KUALA TERENGGANU, Aug 10 (Bernama) -- The government may limit the purchase of express bus tickets per person to prevent touts from buying them in bulk during festive seasons, said Entrepreneur and Cooperative Development Minister Datuk Noh Omar.
He said this was one of the ways being studied to curb the activities of touts during festive seasons.
"Should we limit the purchase of tickets per person, some people might get angry and if we don't, some people might buy between 30 and 40 tickets.
"We are looking into it... whether it is necessary to limit the ticket purchase. If it is the best way to deal with touts, it will be implemented during the coming Hari Raya Puasa season," he told reporters after attending the closing of a commercial vehicles management course here Sunday.
Noh said the Commercial Vehicle Licensing Board (CVLB) and other agencies had already launched operations to curb touts in view of the coming festive season.
He said 40 touts, including two foreigners, who were selling express bus tickets were nabbed at the Puduraya bus terminal in Kuala Lumpur in an operation, two days ago.
-- BERNAMA