The plan to dedicate some routes to public transport buses was announced last year and city officials said that the move would have been in place at the beginning of this year.
The idea was to dedicate these routes to public buses starting from 6:00am to 8:30am.
Speaking to National Broadcaster, RBA yesterday, the City Engineer, Dr Alphonse Nkurunziza said that there are different activities which they are still putting in place before the programme starts.
“The most fundamental activity we are still implementing is roads expansion, after expansion activities, we will then start dedicated bus routes,” he said.
“After having dedicated bus lanes, the flow of traffic will become easy. We are conducting a feasibility study on how bus stops would have ways to communicate passengers on the time of the bus arrival and time it would spend there. That exercise would be possible when the bus has no hindrances along the roads,” he added.
Speaking to IGIHE, Nkurunziza said that he is optimistic that the programme will have started by August 2018.
“We expect that this programme will go in place when the roads which are under construction are completed. We expected that they would be completed by the end of June but, due to heavy rains, roads construction works have been suspended, so, that is a challenge and roads can’t be completed in June. We expect that it will not go beyond August and then start dedicated bus lanes programme,” he explained.
Nkurunziza said that they will use advanced technology in traffic lights so that they will ease traffic flow for public buses.
“Traffic lights will be able to sensor public bus and speed up so that the bus will not spend time,” he added.
Among the roads being expanded to meet dedicated bus lanes standards include the Rwandex-Sonatube section and Sonatube-Remera road.
The road from City Centre to Nyabugogo bus terminal has been completed and Nyabugogo-Gatsata, among others is still underway.
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