Africa-Press – Angola. The Transport Minister, Ricardo de Abreu, said Friday (20), in Huíla, that, as a result of the accelerated demographic growth, which is currently taking place, the urban mobility sector is responding to these new challenges. He declared that there are “cities growing very fast, with increasing and large population intensities” and that this dynamic poses challenges in terms of urban mobility in the main cities of the country.
To respond to such dynamics, he assured, there has been extensive work on the increase and expansion of urban collective transport at a national level. Ricardo D’Abreu was in Huíla to take and define solutions to meet the transport needs, judging by the growing number of the population and that, increasingly, move to the various parts of the city.
The province of Huíla received, yesterday, 26 new conventional buses and four articulated ones, in a ceremony that was attended by the minister. With this delivery, as Ricardo D’Abreu recalled, there are now 1,500 buses delivered nationwide, from 2019 to this part.
The system must be functional, in an intermodal way, where all operators and agents are an integral part of the urban mobility system. “No one can be excluded,” he said, adding that the same work is being done on the integrated ticket office project to be launched soon.
The challenge, he said, is aimed, above all, in meeting the needs of urban mobility, which “is as relevant as any other social need, whether in the field of education, health, commerce and others, since, in order to reach to these infrastructures or facilities and to have these services, it is necessary to have means of transport”.
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