Building sustainable transport systems for a growing city

ongoing

The BRT phase 5 project aims to decongest Dar es Salaam by improving the flows of transport through the following actions:Construction of a total of 27.6 km roads from Ubungo junction to Dar es Salaam Port, branch from Tabata to Segerea through Nelson Mandela road to Kigogo and from Veterinary to Mbagala,Construction of 36 BRT stations, as well as the construction of 7 feeder transfer stations and the commissioning of 6 feeder routes.The construction of the infrastructures will be implemented by TANROADS and the operations and systems will be implemented by DART.The objective is to be able to transport 12 000 to 20 000 passengers per hour and per direction (PPHPD) at peak hour, depending on the section of the corridors. At least 30% of new drivers will be women through a special program to motivate women bus drivers to get trained (approx. 100 were trained in Phase 1 operations, out of which 30 were recruited). Some of the buses will be modified to accommodate disabled, pregnant women, and elderly persons.