On Monday, the Minister of Public Works and Transport, Ali Hamieh, inaugurated the arrival of the primary batch of French-donated buses.
The 50 buses are supposed to slowly ease the transportation issues in Lebanon as the general public transportation sector can be affected by the shortcoming of the authorities to offer the mandatory funding to rehabilitate it.
The donation was welcomed by the Lebanese Minister of Public Works and Transport Minister who beforehand acknowledged that “assist from pleasant international locations to Lebanon and its individuals is at all times welcome so long as it’s unconditional and extends to all its sects and areas.”
Nonetheless, these buses can’t cowl all areas, as professionals within the area had earlier expressed. That they had indicated that Lebanon wants hundreds of buses in higher Beirut alone, not to mention the opposite areas, notably to afford the general public to commute from northern and southern Lebanon to the capital.
Joseph Bahout, the Director of Issam Fares Institute for Public Coverage and Worldwide Affairs, has additionally voiced some pertinent questions concerning the French buses: “Are they tailored to the town and its poor infrastructures? Are there sufficient native administration procedures to optimize operation?”
It’s sure that the problems with the transportation sector gained’t finish with the donated buses, contemplating the wanted optimization of the operation, as Bahout indicated, and the continued gasoline disaster, together with the growing costs of gasoline.
