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Jan

2023

By The African Mirror

Lagos gets a new elevated rail network

AFRICITIES

BIRD STORY AGENCY THE first phase of a light rail system that is set to transform commuting in Nigeria's economic capital, has been commissioned. The Blue Line project in Lagos is a 27-kilometre rail system that upon completion is expected to carry more than 500,000 passengers. The first phase traverses five stations covering a distance of 13 kilometres and has the capacity to move 250,000 passengers daily. The state government said that it had taken delivery of three sets of wagons that will be used forpassenger operations. “Over the last two decades, that masterplan has been faithfully implemented by successive…

Nov

2020

By The African Mirror

Women and girls bear brunt of Africa ‘transport poverty’

HUMAN RIGHTS

KIM HARRISBERG LONG queues in the rain, daily four-hour trips in a public taxi, the constant threat of road accidents, and nearly having to use a pen as a knife to fight off an aggressive male passenger. These are just some of the challenges Busisiwe Nongauza has faced while commuting to and from her job as an insurance underwriter in Johannesburg, South Africa's biggest city. Nongauza, who lives in Soweto, the country's biggest township, is not alone in her experience. A new study shows that in Sub-Saharan Africa "transport poverty" - when inaccessible or unsuitable transport negatively impacts a person's…