President Samia Suluhu Hassan has made significant changes in the restructuring of public service roles, notably appointing a new Managing Director for the Rapid Bus Transit Company UDART.
Waziri Kindamba has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of UDART, taking over from Mr. Gilliard Wilson Ngewe, whose appointment has been revoked. Kindamba, who previously served as the Regional Commissioner of Tanga, now steps into this crucial role within UDART.
As per the official statement, Mr. Ngewe will be reassigned to other government duties.
These changes, aimed at improving efficiency as stated by the State House, come at a critical juncture for UDART, which is currently grappling with challenges such as a shortage of buses providing regular services along the special high-speed lanes in Dar Es Salaam.
Public transport system has been a means of addressing transportation challenges in urban areas, such as traffic congestion, traffic jam and long travel time in cities worldwide. Transportation in Africa is unique in that it has the least developed public transport systems in the world, while also being one of the fastest urbanizing continents. Bus Rapid Transit being one of the public transport systems was introduced in Africa in 2008 as a means to provide solution on urban transportation challenges. Despite of public transport being the main means of transport in African developing countries, there have been a number of challenges that affects efficiency of performance of the system and makes its users uncomfortable.
All was going smoothly until Udart crisis started form 2020 till date. It is hope that with a new management, the troubles of Udart can be slowly be reduced if not curtailed.
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