Strabag’s Dar es Salaam contract

The award of a US$177million construction contract to Austria’s Strabag for a transport project in Tanzania’s capital Dar es Salaam in late February has raised the hopes of the city becoming the first in the region to modernise urban transport through elimination of minibuses and private cars from the city centre. This will pave the way for the introduction of improved high- capacity buses (with capacity of 140 passengers) that would use non-polluting energy, hence reducing air pollution in this city of 2.
June 14, 2012 Read time: 1 min
The award of a US$177million construction contract to Austria’s 945 Strabag for a transport project in Tanzania’s capital Dar es Salaam in late February has raised the hopes of the city becoming the first in the region to modernise urban transport through elimination of minibuses and private cars from the city centre.

This will pave the way for the introduction of improved high- capacity buses (with capacity of 140 passengers) that would use non-polluting energy, hence reducing air pollution in this city of 2.8 million people.

This six-phase project bus-based mass transit system, DAR Rapid Transit Agency, will involve the construction of a total of 130.3km of improved roads with exclusive lanes for the high- capacity buses.

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