Casablanca Invests 1.5 Billion Dirhams in 700 New Buses to Overhaul Public Transport

It is thus a question of the purchase of 700 buses for the sum of 1.5 billion dirhams, reports the newspaper l’Economiste, which indicates that the local authorities have published a few days ago a call for tenders for the purchase of these new vehicles.

We should know a little more on May 14 during the opening of the bids, specifies the economic daily according to which this acquisition must be fully covered by the support fund for the reform of urban transport, while originally the local authorities were considering having half the cost borne by the new delegatee, whose identity is not yet known to date.

This new fleet, adds the newspaper, must cover the 18 municipalities of Greater Casablanca even if this means of transport seems to be shunned by the Casablancans who prefer to walk for 62% of them, cars or taxis, provided they have the means.