The verdict has been handed down. The man prosecuted by the justice system for having ransacked the Alsa bus was sentenced to three years of firm imprisonment. The authorities intend to deal with the utmost firmness with all those who will be guilty of acts of vandalism and destruction on the new buses put into service.
Social gains are not recorded in the specifications, signed between the Safi Municipal Council and Vectalia, the Spanish company in charge of urban transport. As a result, disabled people have to pay the bus ticket just like the others, for fear of ending up in a police station.
The National Railway Office (ONCF) has launched its new offers for the start of the school year. Several subscription cards with many tariff advantages will be made available to customers.
The Alsa-City bus group, the delegated manager of urban bus transportation in Rabat-Salé-Témara, intends to create 1,750 direct jobs in the very near future. This job creation will take shape after the commissioning of its fleet of vehicles.
The Alsa city bus company, which has just launched its new bus transportation service in Rabat, plans to use 1,000 buses in Morocco. It plans to employ 3,600 people and transport 250 million passengers per year.
Caught off guard on the morning of Wednesday, August 7, 2019, by a strike of M’dina Bus drivers, Casablancans no longer know which way to turn, especially given the deficit that already prevailed compared to the large taxis.
The arrival of the new Alsa buses for the Rabat-Salé-Témara agglomeration will be effective before the next school year. This is what Abdellatif Soudou, vice-president of the urban municipality of Rabat-Salé, said.
Closed since July 20 for work reasons, the nine tramway stations in Casablanca, located between Derb Ghallef and Aïn Diab, resumed service on Monday, August 5, 2019.
Two denials are better than one. After the formal denial of the Rabat city hall regarding the implementation of buses exclusively for women, it is the turn of the "Al Assima" group to deny the arrival of the "pink buses".
The simple launch of a recruitment campaign for 180 women was enough to rekindle the debate on the "pink bus" project exclusively reserved for women in the Rabat-Salé-Témara region.
If the call for tenders is completed, Casablanca should completely renew its bus fleet within 2 years with the acquisition of some 700 brand new and latest generation buses.
The delegate minister in charge of relations with Parliament and civil society, Mustapha El Khalfi, announced the restart of Alsa-City Bus activities from July, for the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region.