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Bus-hailing firms upstage botched State BRT project

BRT lanes along Thika super highway. The new BRT buses expected to improve Nairobi city's transport as well as reduce the vehicles congestion. [Elvis Ogina.Standard]

Bus-hailing company SWVL last week launched operations in the Kenyan market in a Sh1.5 billion investment that seeks to disrupt Nairobi’s chaotic public transport system.

The launch follows an eight-month pilot run of the service in Nairobi that saw the Egyptian-based company roll out 150 buses along 55 routes with hundreds of drop off and pick-up points.

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