The Kigali City Council administration will relocate buses that travel upcountry from the stopovers in the city center to Nyabugogo Main Taxi Park before the end of this month.
Exclusively speaking to igihe.com, Bruno Rangira, in charge of communications at the City Council said that, relocation is intended to reduce traffic jam and congestion of cars in the city center.
Rangira added that the stopovers create disorganization because most of them operate inside the parking yards of different city mall buildings and that this leads to a lot of congestion around the city.
Igihe.com also spoke to some of the passengers who normally use these buses when travelling.
Jeannette Mukamurenzi of Kamembe, Rusizi district in the western part of the country noted: “I normally use express bus company called Sotra to come to Kigali for shopping and the relocation will tease us for some time but we shall get used to it because the policy looks to be developmental for the city.”
She added that normally people don’t get used to the new system easily but in the long run they get used and find the system useful.
Aline Umutesi, is a student at the National University of Rwanda (NUR). She pointed out that : “relocating parking yards of these buses is not so bad, but what is necessary is to provide enough security in Nyabugogo because the place normally looks to be insecure.”
Responding to the issue of security, Rangira assured the public saying that security will be enough since there will be enough space for these buses as compared to where they are currently operating from.
According to the KCC, the relocation process would have been ended some time back but the challenge has been the bidders meant to develop the area where offices of these buses are to operate from.
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