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AfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> THE Land Transport Regulatory Authority (LATRA) has officially launched E-ticketing system for upcountry buses.<\/p>\n

Adressing journalists yesterday, Latra director general Gilliard Ngewe in the beginning those with mobile phones will be using their phones to get electronic tickets.<\/p>\n

According to Ngewe reaching the stage was not a simple matter because there are people who went to court to challenge the system.<\/p>\n

Ngewe said a huge number of upcountry buses have been connected with the system and passengers can now buy the tickets via the system.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe decided that it should reach a point where bus owners should conduct their businesses freely in which they can invest money into the sector and then make profits,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The government announced last year that it would introduce electronic ticketing as a way of preventing unwarranted fare hikes during the festive season and also in \u00a0\u00a0efforts to help the Tanzanians.<\/p>\n

Ngewe said through the new system, one can buy a ticket for a relative and save time which was lost before the system was introduced..<\/p>\n

He said the system is not new to Tanzania because it is also being used in developed countries which also helps to have enough data on the number of passengers.<\/p>\n

For his part, LATRA board chairman Henry Bantu said in the past bus companies were collapsing because there was no proper administration systems.<\/p>\n

He added that Latra will not sit down and watch bus companies collapsing because there is a new system to oversee the sector.<\/p>\n

\u201cLatra will not allow bus companies collapse, but we should also be ready to change because our colleagues have done it long time ago,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ngewe said \u00a0\u00a0launching of the system was a move to permanently end problems of hiking \u00a0\u00a0fares as well as end syndicates which have been benefiting from the sector illegally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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