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Here’s what to do to fix broken transport sector

Anyone born this millennium would be forgiven for thinking that Kenya’s public transport system has always existed in a Hobbesian state of nature. “Nasty, brutish and short,” are terms that aptly describe the lives of the purveyors of public transport, popularly known as matatus, and their passengers.

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