{"id":23743,"date":"2016-03-07T09:58:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T09:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nyabugogo-bridge-state-worries-passengers\/"},"modified":"2016-03-09T06:53:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T06:53:10","slug":"nyabugogo-bridge-state-worries-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nyabugogo-bridge-state-worries-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyabugogo bridge state worries passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Nyabugogo Bridge connects different districts including Nyarugenge and Gasabo districts in Kigali city. It has several potholes creating traffic jam. Accidents often take place at Nyabugogo Bridge, as users attest. Drivers request involved parties to intervene  before the situation gets worse.<br \/>\n}<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe bridge shakes as cars cross it putting the lives of passengers in danger. The bridge may collapse in if  nothing is done to fix  the bridge which is in a critical situation, \u201cnarrates one of the passengers. <\/p>\n<p>Potholes at Nyabugogo Bridge were firstly realized in 2014 and got expanded over time as users told IGIHE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is  two years since these potholes appeared on the bridge. .There is always traffic jam at the bridge frustrating passengers. The bridge evokes fear among passengers as the bridge continues to shake while cars drive  over the bridge in traffic jam. They believe the bridge is going to collapse \u201csaid Kamuzinzi Kasim, a driver of public transport buses.<\/p>\n<p>Uwamahoro Marie Rose, a user of the bridge living by its sides in the locality popularly known as \u2018Kiderenka\u2019 said that cars hit passengers at the bridge almost every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day, a person is hit at the bridge, there occur thick  the traffic jam , motorbikes and bicycles. I have most of the time seen bicycle riders being hit.\u201d The president of Rwanda Transport Development Agency (RTDA), Guy Kalisa has told IGIHE that potholes at Nyabugogo Bridge are known and promised renovation of the dilapidated bridge.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe already know the case of such potholes on the bridge of Nyabugogo. We plan to renovate them in the 2016\/2017 fiscal year. Nyabugogo Bridge is strong enough that it can\u2019t callapse,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Kalisa said  they are now renovating collapsed  bridges including Rwabusoro Bridge connecting Nyanza and Bugesera districts which caved in  2014. Gashora Bridge  is also under renovation and expected to be completed in September, 2016.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-10803 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/nyabugogo-2.jpg\" alt=\"Nyabugogo bridge \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-10804 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ikira.jpg\" alt=\"Passengers crossing Nyabugogo bridge \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Nyabugogo Bridge connects different districts including Nyarugenge and Gasabo districts in Kigali city. It has several potholes creating traffic jam. Accidents often take place at Nyabugogo Bridge, as users attest. Drivers request involved parties to intervene before the situation gets worse. } \u201cThe bridge shakes as cars cross it putting the lives of passengers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-23743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743","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=23743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23743"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=23743"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=23743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}