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Ressano Garcia border post opens 24/7 for the festive season

1:53 CAT | 23 Nov 2017

The Maputo metropolitan integrated transport system, a partnership between FLEETRAIL and Mozambique’s railways (CFM), could start in two weeks.

Such was the guarantee given by the Transport and Communications minister, quoted by AIM. The 16 four-carriage trains, the first phase of the project, are already in Maputo. Each train can carry up to 540 passengers.

The importation of these trains from New Zealand was subject to some ribaldry due to the fact that they were manufactured in 1973.

The privately owned metro-bus project will cost about USD$1 million and is part of what Maputo mayor David Simango described on accepting 80 buses donated by China as “a smart solution for urban mobility and the lack of urban transport in the country’s capital”.

According to Simango, the availability of urban transport on fixed routes and obeying strict schedules will result in fewer people using private vehicles and so reduce congestion. ‘Smart’ traffic lights will adjust to traffic flows.

Another proposal is the creation of “new centralities” reducing the number of people needing to come into the city. The combination of measures is expect to sound the death knoll for the so-called ‘My Loves’, especially as the country is buying 300 more buses.