General Motors East Africa has formed a consortium with matatu owners in a bid to scale up absorption of high capacity buses in the public transport industry.
This comes amid a sustained push by the government to phase out 14-seater matatus, blamed for the unending traffic snarl-ups on Nairobi roads and congestion in the capital.
Matatus have recently decried lack of involvement in the planned phase-out as it emerged there was no effective financial arrangement for individual operators to acquire higher capacity buses.
GM general manager sales and marketing Geoffrey Mulunda said the campaign seeks to modernise the transport system in Kenya’s main urban centres, adding that this can achieved through use of high capacity buses to reduce vehicles congestion.
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