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Passengers board a bus at the Ambassador bus stage in Nairobi's Central Business District. The number of newly registered buses and coaches more than doubled from 893 units in 2021 to 2,173 in 2022. [Danish Ochieng, Standard]
The latest government data suggests a spike in the usage of public transport as the number of newly registered personal cars drops.
Road transport output for passenger traffic crossed the Sh1 trillion mark in 2022 as the data by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics(KNBS) indicated the registration of more than 1,000 buses and coaches.
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