Supported by the Brazilian ambassador in Cameroon, Nei Futuro Bitencourt, a delegation of the management of the Brazilian company Marcopolo has just handed over to the new Cameroonian Minister of Transport, Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo’o, its proposal for setting up an urban mass transport system in Cameroon, particularly in the cities of Yaoundé and Douala, the two capitals of the country.
Marcopolo, who has been working on this project with the Cameroonian government for three years now, we learned, plans to take advantage of the impeding Africa Women Cup of Nations which Cameroon will host in November-December 2016, to speed up its investment in the country. Indeed, the ambassador of Brazil stressed, if the project is approved by the Cameroonian government, "the buses will be in Cameroon by end September, to effectively contribute to the 2016 tournament".
The BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) urban transportation system, which Marcopolo wants to implement in Cameroon, in partnership with Queiroz-Galvao and Logit; has the particularity of adapting to the structure of the city where it is set up, whatever the existing configuration may be, the Brazilians explain.
Experimented for the first time in the Brazilian city of Curitiba in 1974, this urban transport system is today used, we learned from reliable sources, in about a hundred cities throughout the world. Gabon will try it out during the 2016 AfCON, we learned.