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?The Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) has joined a growing list of grand projects in the transport sector that have failed or were never implemented.
On the spot are the National Transport and Safety Authority and the Nairobi Metropolitan Transport Authority as well as State House, which has more than once been drawn into launching some of these failed initiatives. The BRT project was announced in a hurried painting of lanes on Thika Road, which closely followed the appearance of National Youth Service (NYS) buses on the roads. On the day of its launch, Transport CS James Macharia appeared in Parliament to announce that the state had bought 50 high-capacity buses for these special lanes.
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