A firm known as UDART was recently established and assigned to provide bus transportation services on the route from Kimara, cutting through Ubungo, Manzese, Magomeni, Kariakoo and Kisutu up to Kivukoni.
Contractors say there are 21 bus stops along the route, where dozens of high quality luxurious Chinese-made buses of Golden Dragon make will be plying.
UDART officials are yet to disclose the fare to be charged for using the service that is widely expected to reduce the current and somewhat embarrassing traffic jams on most of Dar es Salaam roads.
It is common for a person commuting between Kimara and the city centre of Dar es Salaam to spend two or three hours. However, UDART officials said over the weekend that under the new system, it would take only 25 minutes to go through the distance.For thousands of Dar es Salaam residents and their children who had for years been going through gruelling hardship in commuting from home to work places or school, the project sounds like a fairy tale.
It is hoped that those assigned to operate the so-called high speed and efficient rapid bus system are going to meet the people’s expectations.
The DART project is among capital intensive strategic projects executed by the Fourth Phase Government under President Jakaya Kikwete.
The people are, therefore, keen to know if the project is worth the billions of tax-payers’ money spent on the project. It is hoped that the operators are vigilantly going to protect the infrastructure along the DART corridor including structures at the bus stops and other facilities.
There are already complaints that vandals and some entrepreneurs have invaded the bus stops vending various mechandise ranging from sweets, konyagi, viroba to illicit drugs and bhang. This should not be tolerated.
Apart from conducting business along the corridors illegally there are reports of people throwing rubbish around the places that has already turned some spots into eyesores. This must be brought to an end.
/Daily News.
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