Dar wins 2018 Sustainable Transport Award

[RVtitem]

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http://citiscope.org/story/2017/new-bus-rapid-transit-system-earns-dar-es-salaam-2018-sustainable-transit-award

http://staward.org/winners/2017-santiago-chile/

[RV Pundit]

Yeap I have heard the BTR has changed DAR - We need to implement it in Nairobi together with light electric train.

[Nefertiti]

Intra-city transport needs serious planning. Like this BTR, light rail or trumps need lots of space and power lines which CBD does not have. We need to go big on subway - probably through concession. You board at Thika, Mlolongo or even Mombasa and emerge at Kencom or Westlands - right where you're headed.

[RVtitem]

I think the current generation in Kenya has decided to prioritize private cars at the expense of public transport. BRT or light rail could have been piloted on Thika road....and now Outer ring road/jogoo raod. However, GOK has let it go.

[Kichwa]

That is because we have been having a government of thieves ever since.  The only thing that mattered for a long time is individuals in power making a lot of money and playing tribal politics.  We have never had a serious government which truly cares about Kenyans.  The result is everybody is on their own and so people buy cars, matatus, a recipe for traffic jams.  What is sad about Nairobi is that it was a city that had a working mass transit-kbs, but like everything else, greed prevailed and it failed. It would be very sad if again in 2017, we are unable to change this country.

I think the current generation in Kenya has decided to prioritize private cars at the expense of public transport. BRT or light rail could have been piloted on Thika road....and now Outer ring road/jogoo raod. However, GOK has let it go.