Good news for travelers in Myanmar. Your bus driver can no longer – officially – get away with turning up drunk or imbibing on the job.
As of next month, drivers on bus lines taking the Yangon-Mandalay highway will face action is they are found to be drunk.
The road is so notoriously dangerous it is nicknamed ‘Death Highway’.
Police have been testing drivers throughout July’s ‘awareness period’, though punishments don’t begin until August, the Voice reported.
“If they are drunk, there will be no action if it is in the awareness period but there will be action if the awareness period of over,” a senior police official from the Naypyitaw force told the newspaper.
He did not specify what the “action” would be.
Owners of at least some highway lines have added a clause in the contracts stipulated that drivers can be fired if they drink and drive.
