Dar sets the pace for East Africa with rapid bus transit system
Dar es Salaam Rapid Transit buses are providing transport for the city’s five million people. The 2017/18 proposed budget has ambitious goals of expanding the infrastructural base. PHOTO | EMMANUEL HERMAN
Dar es Salaam’s notorious traffic snarl-ups could be a thing of the past following the launch of a mass rapid transit service for the city’s five million residents.
The dilapidated privately owned mini-buses and vans, known as daladala, will be relegated to the outskirts of the commercial city, as the fleet of Chinese-built Golden Dragon buses takes over the city’s major streets and trunk roads.
