Nepal Traffic Police Sucks ………………….

I left my house at 9:00 from Paknajol for my office in kalanki within second I reached the Bisnumati Bridge, before that I saw few traffic police checking the blue book and license. It’s very rare that they check all the people passing by but I rarely encounter them as they target the young and [...]

Nigeria: This Lagos Traffic and Ignored Solutions

Sometimes when one follows some events the Nigerian media throw attention to, you wonder how much value it breeds, in a country where many challenges will start tapering, if attention is thrown at them. A glaring example is the Lagos traffic problem, it is a very big one, but it is at best ignored, for [...]

UK Climate Change Fund: Nigeria Low Carbon Transport Options

Thank you climate change, thanks for being the factor for which Nigeria will be supported to move in direction of low carbon transport and energy efficiency. The British government listed Nigeria amongst developing nations that are beneficiaries of its International Climate Fund (ICF) this December. Climate change is becoming a priority issue in Nigeria especially [...]

South Africa: Transport unites communities, reduces carbon

It is the latest trend and yet the only one of its kind in Africa. South Africa’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system is not only being hailed as the best for crowded cities and Africa’s panacea to urban transport crises, it is also being billed as “green transport”. Using the latest technology the BRT encompasses [...]

Veolia keeps silent about two bus services to illegal settlements

The Derail Veolia Campaign is taking off in the United States. In response, Veolia has spread the information that it “does not operate other bus services in the West Bank” besides the bus lines 109 and 110.  Last week, Who Profits, a research project of the Israeli Coalition of Women for Peace, found that Veolia operates two other bus services to [...]

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