Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Taxi operators plying the Entebbe Expressway have regularized their status and formed an association to improve their services and handle common challenges. The operators who use omnibuses popularly known as drones, met the Works and Transport State Minister, Fred Byamukama on Wednesday. Peter Kaggwa, the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In a bid to have a louder voice, taxi operators under their umbrella body, the Federation of Uganda Taxi Operators-UTOF, have commissioned a nationwide registration of all people operating the taxi business. In the exercise which is expected to run up to December, both drivers …
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Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police used teargas to quell rowdy taxi operators who were fighting over the operation of illegal parking spaces and stages in Masaka. Police led by Masaka City Police Commander Moses Nanoka intervened after leaders of Masaka United Taxi Operators and Drivers Cooperative Society, engaged …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police used teargas on Wednesday to disperse rowdy taxi operators in Bwaise along Kampala-Bombo road in Kawempe division who were fighting for space and passengers. Police intervened after taxi operators at Lions stage exchanged blows with their counterparts near Dr. Lubega’s clinic on the opposite …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Taxi operators have appealed to Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA to open the old taxi park which was closed for renovation in May 2020. KCCA failed to complete works in three months as planned attributing the delay to COVID-19 which forced the country into lockdown during …
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Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | For over a decade now, the taxi operators under their umbrella of Masaka United Taxi Drivers and Operators Cooperative Society-MUTDOCs, have been operating from a temporary taxi park located along the Kampala road in the centre of Masaka town. Before the lockdown restrictions were eased, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Taxi and bus operators in Kampala have heightened enforcement of the standard operating procedures as they resume operations after 42 days of lockdown. On Friday, President Yoweri Museveni announced that taxis and buses would resume operations today but under strict observance of SOPs. They are …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Business is slow for taxi operators in Mukono district on day one of the resumption of public transport following the 42-days lockdown announced by the president to contain the second wave of COVID-19. Dozens of taxi drivers made it early to various stages expecting a …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 1,500 students have so far been transported to their homes after they were stranded in the taxi and bus parks in Kampala. Since Tuesday, the government has been providing transport to clear the numbers of students stranded in Kampala to get back to their upcountry …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Airport taxi operators say the implementation of the new COVID-19 preventive measures at the airport have affected their business. Travelers entering the country are required to test for COVID-19 at the testing centre in the gardens of Peniel Beach Hotel, less than two kilometres away from …
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