Africa’s Public Transit Renaissance

Posted: 01 Jan 2003

Related to: Dakar BRT, Developing High-Quality, Low-Cost Mass Transit,
Contributed by: Walter Hook, ITDP

Two of Africa's most respected and recently elected statesmen, President Kufuor of Ghana and President Wade of Senegal, placed improving public transit at the top of their inaugural agendas. Recently, the capital cities of Accra and Dakar have appealed to the Global Environmental Facility and ITDP for help in realizing modern BRT corridors and cycleways – the first such systems in Africa.

Read the full story in Sustainable Transport magazine #14.