Transport in Jamaica

The Highway 2000 project, which seeks ultimately to link Kingston with Montego Bay and the north coast, is currently undergoing a series of phases/legs.

The Jamaica Omnibus Service (JOS) was a municipal bus system that served the Kingston metropolitan area that ran from 1953 to 1983.

It was replaced by a hodgepodge of privately operated buses, and a national bus system called the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) was established in 1998 after complaints.

[5] Railways in Jamaica, as in many other countries, no longer enjoy the prominent position they once did, having been largely replaced by roadways as the primary means of transport.

Of these, 207 km belong to the Jamaica Railway Corporation in common carrier service but are no longer operational.

In addition there are local commuter airports at Tinson Pen (Kingston), Port Antonio, Ocho Rios, Mandeville, and Negril that cater to internal flights only.

The Ian Fleming International Airport opened in February 2011 to serve the Ocho Rios - Port Antonio area.

Port Rhoades in Discovery Bay is responsible for transporting bauxite dried at the adjacent Kaiser plant.