Buses and Tax Owners Association of Zambia President Amis Daudi has hailed the Local Governments intention to relocate the Intercity Bus Terminus to Makeni Area, stating that this will decongest the CBD and create space for the buses to park.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Zambian Business Times (ZBT) Daudi said this will also enable for the creation of a modern structure which is purposely made to cutter for transport related activities.
“We don’t have parking space at the current Intercity Bus Terminus especially for those with a fleet of buses that have to ran one after another they have to find other alternative parking spaces, the modern structure will enable access to various goods and services that are required for the people and the buses,” he said.
Daudi remarked to the assertions by some members of the publics who criticized the planned initiative, by stating that the initiative is in good faith.
“The only way to decongest the CBD is to take away some of the activities to other areas, you can look at the business unit that have sprang up around Lusaka, you can look at the shopping malls that are being set up to decongest the CBD, and we must also look at decongesting the Intercity, and it will be take a bit of some time to get used, and even when we say it is central, this is relative to where one stays, because it is not central to those that stay in 6 miles or any other far place,” he said.
Daudi revealed that the Association has had several engagements with the Government over decongesting a number of bus stations in the district.
“The population of Lusaka has exploded we need to start looking at how well we can cutter for that, we have made some proposals in the past and preliminary discussions with other stakeholders that perhaps we need to establish more bus stations around Lusaka,” he said.
