{"id":21163,"date":"2015-11-10T07:39:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T07:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kigali-punishments-await-drivers-public-transport\/"},"modified":"2015-11-10T07:39:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T07:39:50","slug":"kigali-punishments-await-drivers-public-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kigali-punishments-await-drivers-public-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"Kigali: Punishments await drivers\u2019 public transport delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) has declared that punishments await drivers who frustrate passengers over delayed time spent at bus bus stops. } <\/p>\n<p>The concern follows passengers\u2019 complaints over prolonged stay at bus stops after the rise of public transport fare. Talking to IGIHE, citizens revealed that since the transport fare rose they have been footing the journey from their homes to Kigali town center over drivers\u2019 impediment at bus stops.<\/p>\n<p>Ruhumuriza Majidi, residing in Gatsata sector, argues that he has decided to foot the journey to avoid frustrations resulted from prolonged sojourn at bus stops. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince public transport fare has gone up; I never traveled on bus ahead of drivers\u2019 delay waiting for passengers.\u201dHe said.<\/p>\n<p> Emmanuel Katabarwa Asaba, the officer in charge public transport in RURA, says that the institution has not yet received such claims and warns drivers to be proactive to avoid punishments awaiting them.  <\/p>\n<p> \u201cEven though the case has not yet proven accountability, drivers know that delaying passengers is against the rule. That is why we will not tolerate the subject.\u201dSaid Emmanuel. <\/p>\n<p>He appeals to passengers to inform RURA in case of prolonged stay at bus stops to have offenders penalized.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-9110 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/internet-3.jpg\" alt=\"Internet photo\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) has declared that punishments await drivers who frustrate passengers over delayed time spent at bus bus stops. } The concern follows passengers\u2019 complaints over prolonged stay at bus stops after the rise of public transport fare. Talking to IGIHE, citizens revealed that since the transport fare rose they have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070158,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21163.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21163.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21163.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21163.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21163.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21163.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21163"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21163"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}