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Sanawari bus-stop moved to new location
By Arusha Times Reporter
The Sanawari bus stop, which was located right at the area’s Traffic
lights crossing point, has been shifted about 300 meters from the
original spot.
A long corrugated aluminum barricade mounted along the lane leading to
the traffic lights now keeps off vehicles from accessing the area once
used as a bus stop. Still, taxis can be seen parked in the area along
with cyclists who of late have started to ferry people from Sanawari
junction to any point in town via AICC road at the cost of between Tsh.
200 and Tsh. 300 per person.
Since the traffic lights were installed at Sanawari there have been
series of complaints regarding the inconveniences caused by the robots,
the major one being the fact that right below the control lights was the
Sanawari bus stop. This became tricky when buses wanted to depart but
the lights restricted them or allowed them to leave just when they were
stopping to deliver passengers.
A recent visit to the area revealed the newly completed road-side
docking aprons that are now going to serve as bus drop-off and pick-up
points away from the town’s first ever traffic lights.
The road aprons now handle the large up-country coaches, town commuter
vans and sometimes even trucks.
From the new Sanawari bus stop people arriving in Arusha can only be
dropped at the Ilboru junction stop after the former bus stop at the
entrance to the Centre for Educational Development in Health of Arusha (CEDHA),
was recently scrapped off.
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