CEBU CITY, Philippines – The former mayor of Bogota, Colombia will be back in Cebu next month to discuss further Bus Rapid Transit system (BRT), which has been very effective in his country. Enrique Peñalosa will be the guest speaker for the Cebu City Bus Rapid Transit Inter-city Coordination Conference on May 9 at the…
Author: Nneka Njoku
The Dar Rapid Transit (Dart) is sensitising the public and decision makers on the environmental and health benefits of lower sulphur fuels. A workshop will be held on April 15 in Dar es Salaam to that discuss the topic and also discuss how to generally tackle pollution. “The project also aims at building consensus and…
Today is perhaps the most challenging day since the Rea Vaya project was launched,” noted City of Johannesburg member of the mayoral committee for transport Rehana Moosajee, speaking at the Intelligent Transport Society South Africa’s e-Transport conference, held in Sandton last week. As she spoke, angry taxi drivers were taking to the streets in Johannesburg,…
To the residents of Dar City, the news that the Rapid Transit project will be operational by November next year is welcome indeed. The BRT project is welcome news because the majority of Dar es Salaam public and industrial workers travel to their work places by buses. At peak hours, the motorized traffic is extremely…
First, many thanks to The Jakarta Post for its enduring support of the Transjakarta Busway network. Its articles have become an instrumental in informing both international and domestic readers as to Transjakarta’s development. In your Tuesday, March 24 article titled “Transjakarta urged to run corridor 9, 10,” on paragraph 9, it was written that, “Damantoro,…
Taxi drivers are a large voting constituency and the issue of an inefficient public transport system riles voters in South Africa. Little wonder then that two political parties have come out saying they share the concerns of the taxi industry. The United Democratic Movement (UDM) said it is opposed to the imposition of ANC ideas…
WINDHOEK – Bicycle Empowerment Network (BEN) Namibia has enlarged the territory for bicycle ambulances to neighbouring countries. This has opened up a market for the bicycle ambulances, which calls for its local manufacture, according to BEN Namibia Managing Director, Michael Linke. BEN Namibia has had a lot of interest from other countries looking for the…
PUNE: Resolving the city’s traffic and transportation problems will be top priority for next two years with main focus on implementation of the metro rail project, MP Suresh Kalmadi said on Monday. Kalmadi visited The Times of India office on Monday and shared his views on the forthcoming elections and the city’s infrastructure development plan….
MUMBAI: Why are bicycles, which don’t pollute, take up little space, are cheap and have virtually no maintenance cost, not a popular mode of travel in Mumbai? According to activists and cycling enthusiasts, the reasons are a mindset that favours motorised vehicles and a lack of infrastructure to promote cycling in the city. These were the…