Tag: Public Transport
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Moving in Lebanon is a luxury, only public transport is the solution
On one of the walls in the Gemmayze neighborhood of Lebanon’s capital Beirut, “Retrieving Beirut” is written, and below it is a drawing of a taxi car. The writings on Beirut’s walls call attention to the indispensability of mobility, secured through the network of taxis and buses/vans, in “retrieving” the city back from the grips of an economic and political… Read more
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Public responsibility for public transport in Lebanon
Near the old lighthouse in Beirut stood a barefoot boy, no older than 10 years and in denim pants that were far too short. He was trying to hail a shared taxi, popularly known in Lebanon as a service. When a taxi car finally approached, he ran to it, his feet numb against the ruggedness of… Read more
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The Pull Out Of The Poverty Trap
One warm afternoon in the historic Chawkbazar neighborhood of old Dhaka in Bangladesh, Shawkat, a 55-years-old rickshaw driver, was resting on the side of a road after hours of pulling his rickshaw in the day’s insufferable heat. On the other side of the road, a ten-year-old girl was standing with a toddler in her arm,… Read more