Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |Ā Ugandan police on Tuesday announced a string of measures to bus operators to reduce the number of road accidents in the country. A bus driver is expected to display his photo in the bus and have a badge that has his photo, name, driving license …
Read More »Bus operators maintain fares despite carrying full capacity
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |Ā Bus operators have maintained transport fares despite being allowed to carry full capacity of passengers. On Friday during the end of year address, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni allowed public transport to resume carrying at full capacity. Initially, the transporters had doubled the fares after the …
Read More »Bus operators hike fares ahead of festivities
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |Ā Bus operators have hiked their transport fares as the Christmas season draws closer citing increasing fuel and spare part prices. This comes weeks after the Works and Transport Minister, General Edward Katumba Wamala rejected earlier attempts by the bus operators under Uganda Bus Owners Association …
Read More »Nakalema orders bus companies to refund extorted passengers cash
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |Ā The head of the Anti-Corruption Unit, Lt. Col. Edith Nakalema has directed bus operators who had collected money from students that were meant to travel with their companies upcountry and never received the service to refund it to them. Nakalema raided bus parks in Kampala …
Read More »Anger as Kabale authorities relocate mechanics, transporters to Mwanjari cemetery
Kabale, Uganda |Ā THE INDEPENDENT | Ā Mechanics, Taxi and Bus operators in Kabale town are up in arms against the municipal authorities for forcefully relocating them to Mwanjari cemetery in Southern division. The mechanics were spread in the three divisions of Kabale Municipality while the Taxi and Bus operators have been …
Read More »Transport fares hiked as public transport resumes in Kabale, Rukungiri
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Taxi and bus operators in Kabale and Rukungiri district have increased fares after the ban on transport in border districts was lifted. Addressing the nation on Monday, President Museveni announced that public and private transport in selected border districts should resume but follow the …
Read More »Bus operators shun new Moroto bus terminal
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bus operators in Moroto have shunned the new bus terminal, which was commissioned by President Yoweri Museveni more than a month ago. Moroto Bus Terminal, constructed by Uganda Support to Infrastructural Development- USMID was completed in April and handed over to the Moroto Municipality …
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