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After a four-year wait, Dakar residents will soon move around their city on board these electric buses.
The vehicles are part of the new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) fleet which was inaugurated on Sunday by the President of Senegal. The 120 e-buses will be powered by solar energy.
“Sunday, 14th of January will go down in our history as a day on which we took another leap towards a modern Senegal,” Macky Sall said.
“We did it with the regional trains, now the BRT reinforces our commitment to the new era of the mass transportation revolution which solves today’s problems and anticipates those of tomorrow.”
The BRT will connect 14 communes of Dakar from north to south. The large-capacity buses (appromitalety 150 seats) are set to carry some 300,000 passengers a day.
