{"id":645,"date":"2011-08-18T10:06:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T10:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kigali-city-council-to-relocate-bus-stops\/"},"modified":"2011-08-18T10:15:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T10:15:15","slug":"kigali-city-council-to-relocate-bus-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kigali-city-council-to-relocate-bus-stops\/","title":{"rendered":"Kigali City Council to Relocate Bus Stops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{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.}}<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>{Igihe.com} also spoke to some of the passengers who normally use these buses when travelling.<\/p>\n<p>Jeannette Mukamurenzi of Kamembe, Rusizi district in the western part of the country noted: \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that normally people don\u2019t get used to the new system easily but in the long run they get used and find  the system useful.<\/p>\n<p>Aline Umutesi, is a student at the National University of Rwanda (NUR). She pointed out that : \u201crelocating 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"byline":[158],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","byline-b_igi_adm1n"],"bylines":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","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":1}],"contributors":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","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":1}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}