Plans under way to brail network between Dar and Morogoro

[Mu-Israeli]

Tanzanian President John Magufuli has announced plans to build a 200 km diesel-electric commuter rail network between Dar es Salaam and the nearby town of Morogoro.

"We want Dar es Salaam to become a modern city," he said as he inaugurated the new Dar es Salaam Rapid Transit System in an effort to ease the journeys of millions of commuters.

A city of four million people, Dar es Salaam until now has had only a haphazard transport system, based on mostly private mini-buses. The new network, paid for by a $290 million loan from the World Bank, will comprise more than 100 buses operating on dedicated bus lanes into the centre of the city.

Magufuli, nicknamed "The Bulldozer" for pushing through projects, was instrumental in implementing the rapid bus transit system when he served as the country's works minister, before becoming president in November 2015.

Hii ni habari njema sana....

 

[Mu-Israeli]

Heading imekatika.
Inatakiwa isomeke kama ifuatavyo...... Mods please help to correct the heading...

PLANS UNDER WAY TO BUILD A 200 KM DIESEL-ELECTRIC COMMUTER RAIL NETWORK BETWEEN DAR AND MOROGORO.

 

[Asprin]

Miradi mingi kwelikweli...

Mingine bado haijaanza tayari mingine ishabuniwa...

Mungu ibariki Tanzania...

 

[Mu-Israeli]

Source: PLANS UNDER WAY TO BUILD A 200 KM DIESEL-ELECTRIC COMMUTER RAIL NETWORK BETWEEN DAR AND MOROGORO - Corporate Digest

 

[RedDevil]

It needs a political willy...otherwise we are even late to start implementing it!!

 

[Mu-Israeli]

Miradi mingi kwelikweli...

Mingine bado haijaanza tayari mingine ishabuniwa...

Mungu ibariki Tanzania...

Ikitekelezwa hii, mambo yatakuwa mazuri sana...

 

[Mu-Israeli]

It needs a political willy...otherwise we are even late to start implementing it!!

Huenda Uturuki ndio watatekeleza huu mradi..

 

[Mu-Israeli]

Labda hii ndio ile ya connection na Rwanda....

Rwanda launches plans to construct railway line through Tanzania



Rwanda has launched plans to build a shared standard gauge railway through the Central Corridor after it realized that Uganda was not prioritizing the Kampala-Kigali connection that would have seen it transport its goods through Kenya.

Rwanda’s Infrastructure Permanent Secretary Christian Rwankunda has attended a series of meetings with senior officials from Tanzania and Burundi to deliberate on the details of the Central Corridor project.

 

[Mwananchi]

Tanzanian President John Magufuli has announced plans to build a 200 km diesel-electric commuter rail network between Dar es Salaam and the nearby town of Morogoro.

"We want Dar es Salaam to become a modern city," he said as he inaugurated the new Dar es Salaam Rapid Transit System in an effort to ease the journeys of millions of commuters.

A city of four million people, Dar es Salaam until now has had only a haphazard transport system, based on mostly private mini-buses. The new network, paid for by a $290 million loan from the World Bank, will comprise more than 100 buses operating on dedicated bus lanes into the centre of the city.

Magufuli, nicknamed "The Bulldozer" for pushing through projects, was instrumental in implementing the rapid bus transit system when he served as the country's works minister, before becoming president in November 2015.

Hii ni habari njema sana....

Wakati sisi tukifikiria kutengeneza reli yenye line moja wenzetu Ethiopia mnaoita maskini wanafanya vitu hivi

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Ethiopia and Djibouti have launched the first fully electrified cross-border railway line in Africa.

It links Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, to the Red Sea port of Djibouti - a stretch of more than 750km (466 miles).

Travelling at 120km/h, the new service cuts the journey time down from three days by road to about 12 hours.

The $3.4bn (£2.7bn) project was built with the help of funding from a Chinese bank and will have Chinese staff.

• Africa Live: More on this and other stories

The track runs parallel to the abandoned Ethio-Djibouti railway, built more than 100 years ago.

Image copyright AFP
Image caption Chinese conductors are at the helm of the new fleet
The BBC's Emmanuel Igunza in Addis Ababa says the new track will initially only run freight services.

The passenger trains - which will run each way daily - are to start in three months' time and ticket prices will be announced nearer the time.

'It will transform my business'
Getachew Betru, chief executive of Ethiopia Railways, says it will be much cheaper and more reliable than travelling to Djibouti by road.

"In Ethiopia currently if you want to bring your container from Hong Kong to Djibouti it will take you maybe two, three weeks. But it will take you more than that to take it from Djibouti to Addis Ababa. It will now take us one day or more," he said.

At the opening ceremony on Wednesday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said that the rail line would be a boost to the economy.

"It will provide huge benefits to the industrial parks and modern farms that will be built in the future," he said.

Image caption In a test run on Wednesday, invited guests were taken on a short ride of one of the trains
A businessman at the opening told the BBC that the railway "would transform" his trade in transporting livestock.

"It will be easier, more efficient," he said.

The railway was 70% financed by China's Exim Bank and built by China Railway Group and China Civil Engineering Construction.

Chinese controllers, technicians and station masters are among those staffing the services for the next five year after which Ethiopians will be employed.

Mr Getachew told the AFP news agency that their local counterparts are in training.

Image copyright AFP
Image caption Chinese staff are contracted to manage the trains for five years

Image copyright AFP
Image caption Local counterparts will be trained during that time
Djibouti is important to landlocked Ethiopia which currently imports and exports nearly 90% of its goods through its port.

Before construction was completed freight services transported food to areas affected by drought last year.

Image copyright AFP
Image caption The rail line starts off with freight services
The railway is the first step in a vast 5,000km-long network of rail which Ethiopia hopes to build by 2020, connecting it to Kenya, Sudan and South Sudan.

The dream is that one day the railway will extend from Djibouti's coast all the way across Africa to the Atlantic Ocean.

 

[Obe]

....aongee na Mwakyembe kwanza kama ile treni ya stesheni-Pugu Mwakanga, yenye kilometa chini ya 50 na ile ya yule 'huyu baba ni mwema sana(mmarekani)' Posta-JKNA imefikia wapi. Akimaliza maswali ndo aje na hii ndoto nzuri ya wanaume TMK Dar Mpaka Moro

 

[Mu-Israeli]

Wakati sisi tukifikiria kutengeneza reli yenye line moja wenzetu Ethiopia mnaoita maskini wanafanya vitu hivi

Image copyright AFP

Ethiopia and Djibouti have launched the first fully electrified cross-border railway line in Africa.

It links Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, to the Red Sea port of Djibouti - a stretch of more than 750km (466 miles).

Travelling at 120km/h, the new service cuts the journey time down from three days by road to about 12 hours.

The $3.4bn (£2.7bn) project was built with the help of funding from a Chinese bank and will have Chinese staff.

• Africa Live: More on this and other stories

The track runs parallel to the abandoned Ethio-Djibouti railway, built more than 100 years ago.

Image copyright AFP
Image caption Chinese conductors are at the helm of the new fleet
The BBC's Emmanuel Igunza in Addis Ababa says the new track will initially only run freight services.

The passenger trains - which will run each way daily - are to start in three months' time and ticket prices will be announced nearer the time.

'It will transform my business'
Getachew Betru, chief executive of Ethiopia Railways, says it will be much cheaper and more reliable than travelling to Djibouti by road.

"In Ethiopia currently if you want to bring your container from Hong Kong to Djibouti it will take you maybe two, three weeks. But it will take you more than that to take it from Djibouti to Addis Ababa. It will now take us one day or more," he said.

At the opening ceremony on Wednesday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said that the rail line would be a boost to the economy.

"It will provide huge benefits to the industrial parks and modern farms that will be built in the future," he said.

Image caption In a test run on Wednesday, invited guests were taken on a short ride of one of the trains
A businessman at the opening told the BBC that the railway "would transform" his trade in transporting livestock.

"It will be easier, more efficient," he said.

The railway was 70% financed by China's Exim Bank and built by China Railway Group and China Civil Engineering Construction.

Chinese controllers, technicians and station masters are among those staffing the services for the next five year after which Ethiopians will be employed.

Mr Getachew told the AFP news agency that their local counterparts are in training.

Image copyright AFP
Image caption Chinese staff are contracted to manage the trains for five years

Image copyright AFP
Image caption Local counterparts will be trained during that time
Djibouti is important to landlocked Ethiopia which currently imports and exports nearly 90% of its goods through its port.

Before construction was completed freight services transported food to areas affected by drought last year.

Image copyright AFP
Image caption The rail line starts off with freight services
The railway is the first step in a vast 5,000km-long network of rail which Ethiopia hopes to build by 2020, connecting it to Kenya, Sudan and South Sudan.

The dream is that one day the railway will extend from Djibouti's coast all the way across Africa to the Atlantic Ocean.

Jamaa wamepiga hatua.
Reli na treni kama South Africa...

 

[fazili]

Nimeongea kuhusu mpango wa Tz kujenga reli ya laini moja na kusema "tunalipua", kwani bado hatutapata "utamu" na faida halisi ya kuwa na reli. Tujenge two-way railway kama Ethiopia/Ulaya.

 

[MWANDENDEULE]

Ikiishia Morogoro tu nitaandamana peke yangu toka Dodoma hadi Posta kwa miguu nikiomba hiyo reli iendelezwe hadi Dodoma, Capitol City kabla ya kuvutwa hadi Mwanza na Kigoma.

 

[Nyenyere]

Wakati sisi tukifikiria kutengeneza reli yenye line moja wenzetu Ethiopia mnaoita maskini wanafanya vitu hivi

Image copyright AFP

Ethiopia and Djibouti have launched the first fully electrified cross-border railway line in Africa.

It links Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, to the Red Sea port of Djibouti - a stretch of more than 750km (466 miles).

Travelling at 120km/h, the new service cuts the journey time down from three days by road to about 12 hours.

The $3.4bn (£2.7bn) project was built with the help of funding from a Chinese bank and will have Chinese staff.

• Africa Live: More on this and other stories

The track runs parallel to the abandoned Ethio-Djibouti railway, built more than 100 years ago.

Image copyright AFP
Image caption Chinese conductors are at the helm of the new fleet
The BBC's Emmanuel Igunza in Addis Ababa says the new track will initially only run freight services.

The passenger trains - which will run each way daily - are to start in three months' time and ticket prices will be announced nearer the time.

'It will transform my business'
Getachew Betru, chief executive of Ethiopia Railways, says it will be much cheaper and more reliable than travelling to Djibouti by road.

"In Ethiopia currently if you want to bring your container from Hong Kong to Djibouti it will take you maybe two, three weeks. But it will take you more than that to take it from Djibouti to Addis Ababa. It will now take us one day or more," he said.

At the opening ceremony on Wednesday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said that the rail line would be a boost to the economy.

"It will provide huge benefits to the industrial parks and modern farms that will be built in the future," he said.

Image caption In a test run on Wednesday, invited guests were taken on a short ride of one of the trains
A businessman at the opening told the BBC that the railway "would transform" his trade in transporting livestock.

"It will be easier, more efficient," he said.

The railway was 70% financed by China's Exim Bank and built by China Railway Group and China Civil Engineering Construction.

Chinese controllers, technicians and station masters are among those staffing the services for the next five year after which Ethiopians will be employed.

Mr Getachew told the AFP news agency that their local counterparts are in training.

Image copyright AFP
Image caption Chinese staff are contracted to manage the trains for five years

Image copyright AFP
Image caption Local counterparts will be trained during that time
Djibouti is important to landlocked Ethiopia which currently imports and exports nearly 90% of its goods through its port.

Before construction was completed freight services transported food to areas affected by drought last year.

Image copyright AFP
Image caption The rail line starts off with freight services
The railway is the first step in a vast 5,000km-long network of rail which Ethiopia hopes to build by 2020, connecting it to Kenya, Sudan and South Sudan.

The dream is that one day the railway will extend from Djibouti's coast all the way across Africa to the Atlantic Ocean.

Mkuu hamia huko, sisi tunataka hiyo ya track moja tu kwanza.

 

[Mwananchi]

Mkuu hamia huko, sisi tunataka hiyo ya track moja tu kwanza.

kwa hiyo utaki maendeleo? Basi si uendelee na hiyo ya zamani?

 

[FRANCIS DA DON]

Vipaumbele vyetu ni vipi? Mbona sielewi, tumalize kwanza Tazara na Ubungo flyover kabla ya kudandia vitu vingine. BRT na Kigamboni bridge iwe ni motivation yetu kwamba tunaweza

 

[inamankusweke]

It needs a political willy...otherwise we are even late to start implementing it!!

Vipaumbele vyetu ni vipi? Mbona sielewi, tumalize kwanza Tazara na Ubungo flyover kabla ya kudandia vitu vingine. BRT na Kigamboni bridge iwe ni motivation yetu kwamba tunaweza

kwani wanaojenga tazara fly over na ubungo ndo wajengao reli?..we mbona unakunyaga huku unaimba..hufany moja baada ya jingne

 

[MAKANJAMNA]

Vipaumbele vyetu ni vipi? Mbona sielewi, tumalize kwanza Tazara na Ubungo flyover kabla ya kudandia vitu vingine. BRT na Kigamboni bridge iwe ni motivation yetu kwamba tunaweza

Kwani hatuwezi kufanya vyote kwa wakati mmoja?? Swala si hela tu...kama zipo miradi yote ifanyike..