{"id":1062,"date":"2014-03-12T08:17:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T07:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2014-03-12T08:17:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T07:17:33","slug":"eac-trucks-drivers-risk-quitting-burundi-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/eac-trucks-drivers-risk-quitting-burundi-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"EAC trucks\u2019 drivers risk quitting Burundi traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the Bujumbura torrential rain of 9th February 2014, roads have been damaged. Today, trucks use the National Road N7 with many difficulties.<\/strong>-By Diane Uwimana<\/em><\/p>\n

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Trucks at their parking destination of \u201cGare Routi\u00e8re\u201d near Lake Tanganyika.\u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n

It is hard to believe. How on earth those trucks succeed to let one another pass on road N7! Arriving at Musaga Parking Station, there is a board indicating the way to use. \u201cThe tarmac road is damaged, every car must use this unpaved one,\u201d says a policeman met at the place trying to regulate the heavy traffic. The used way is full of dangerous turnings. He indicates that if there is a truck which is about to pass, the other policeman at the top of the road calls him to stop other vehicles. The way is very small and uncomfortable, if the drivers do not pay attention, they may crash each other. However, even if policemen try to regulate the traffic, trucks \u2018drivers complain about the long way they use and risk losing their lives. Gathered at their parking destination place commonly called \u201cGare Routi\u00e8re\u201d this Monday 3 February 2014, drivers were furious. \u201cWe have lost two of our colleagues who were transporting petroleum because the road is very small especially from Bujumbura to Ijenda and it lacks road signs\u201d, points out one of the trucks\u2019 drivers from Tanzania, holding in his hand a book to collect money for the funeral of their colleagues. Those drivers point out that some of them have given up coming to Burundi because the transport has become very longer and more expensive. \u201cBefore the incident happens, we travel 250 km, but now, 150km is added. We must add petroleum or oil in order to drive without difficulties. Not only is the way too long, but also we spend much more time waiting for the clearing of the road,\u201d underlines the driver. For them, Burundi Government should rehabilitate the former road (NR1-Bujumbura-Bugarama) very quickly in order to prevent any accident. \u201cOur bosses think already to wait for the rehabilitation because the one we use is hardly feasible. If nothing is done, we are going to go to other countries\u201d, he adds.<\/p>\n

The Ministry in Charge of Transport, Infrastructures and Equipment assures<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ir. Pierre Bayihishako, Director of Roads Planning in the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructures and Equipments underlines that surveys are conducted in order to find out solutions. \u201cWe are aware of what happened and we are trying to rehabilitate those damaged roads in a rush for facilitating the traffic.\u201d He states that the World Bank, European Bank and other partners have promised to give a hand. \u201cEven if traders are free to choose where to run their business, they\u2019d better wait for the rehabilitation,\u201d points out Ir. Bayihishako.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the Bujumbura torrential rain of 9th February 2014, roads have been damaged. Today, trucks use the National Road N7 with many difficulties.-By Diane Uwimana It is hard to believe. How on earth those trucks succeed to let one another pass on road N7! Arriving at Musaga Parking Station, there is a board indicating the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[221,614],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}