80pc of students nationwide without motorbike licence
Published on: Sunday, May 22, 2016
Johor: About 80 per cent out of 117,000 students who ride motorcycles to school nationwide did not possess valid license, said Road Transport Department (RTD) deputy director-general (Planning and Operations), Datuk Yusoff Ayob.He said a study, conducted by RTD jointly with the Education Ministry, revealed that only 20 per cent or 23,400 students have valid B2 motorcycle license, while the remaining 80 per cent did not have a license."The tendency for students to ride a motorcycle without a license was because parents are unable to send their children to school as well as the lack of bus services being provided in the vicinity of the school," he told a press conference after officiating at the closing of 'One Community, One RTD' programme for Gelang Patah, here Saturday.
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