Different passengers have informally requested for three-seat commuter taxi claiming they have for long time been disturbed with the current four-seats.
Felicien Mulinda found at Rwandex bus stop said his trouser was torn due to sandwiched way of sitting four in a row when he was trying to get out of the taxi.
“Why on earth can’t we sit three per row in Rwanda. What is so hard that Rwandan transport system cannot do when other countries have afforded it, if we not careful and take measures to day we may end up having poor transport system like that of Kenya,” Mulinda said in an interview.
Claudine Manishimwe who has been a driver for 15 years retaliated saying Rwanda still has inadequate commuter cars which require them to take as many as possible to solve a problem of passengers waiting for long on different bus stops.
“I do not see any problem in it for we are familiar with it. This is a system we have been operating in ever since, these are just wishes,” Manishimwe said.
Celestin Twahirwa the head of traffic police told IGIHE.com that that the number of passengers in every commuter taxi is determined by the authority of transport companies.
He said: “our intervention may come in for different dangers of traffic otherwise sitting 3 or 4 on each row are the transport companies’ decision.”
Comments from Rwanda Transport Development Agency (RTDA), was fruitless as they could not available at the time.
Fidele Ndayisaba, the mayor of Kigali city also says that any time people show it as a serious problem; they will look for a way to solve it collaborating with relevant authorities.
However many complaints come in as a reference to Rwanda’s joining the East African Community(EAC) where a number of member states like Uganda sit three in a row.
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