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MWENDOKASI at Dar es Salaam Bus Rapid Transit (DART) 

Overview

Dar es Salaam bus rapid transit is a bus rapid transit system that began operations on 10 May 2016 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The transit system consists of 6 phases, and the construction of the first phase began in April 2012 by the Austrian construction company Strabag International GmbH. Construction of the first phase was completed in December 2015 at a total cost of €134 million, funded by the African Development Bank, World Bank, and Tanzania's Government.

The first phase of the project has a total length of 21.1 kilometres with dedicated bus lanes on three trunk routes with 29 stations. The entire system is operated by The Usafiri Salama Dar es Salaam Rapid Transit (UDA-RT) under the Surface and Marine Transport regulatory authority (Sumatra). Currently, the route is serviced by a fleet of 140 Chinese built Golden Dragon buses, providing express and local service for 18 hours daily from 05:00am to 11:00pm.

History

With the city's rapidly growing population, the government began to draw plans for a rapid transit system in 2003. The government predicted the city population to grow over 5 million by 2015 and invited the Japan International Cooperation Agency to design a master plan for transport in June 2008.

A bus rapid transit and a metro transit system were proposed, but the metro system was not approved due to the high construction and operational cost. The project was placed under the Prime Minister's office, and a Dar Rapid Transit Agency (DART) was created through a government notice on 25 May 2007. A 130 km bus rapid transit was planned to cover over 90% of the city's population, and the project was split into six phases due to the large investment required.