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Addis Ababa is set to abandon Code One taxis in the coming years and move to a bus transportation system. 

Addis Ababa Transport Bureau Operations Director Ato Dagnachew Shiferaw told us that the city’s future transportation policy and strategy will encourage buses and metered taxis that carry more than 25 people instead of Code One taxis, so the city will move to that transportation system. 

One bus carries about 8 taxis, and in terms of road congestion, reasonable travel fares, fuel economy and air pollution, it is preferable for the city to use public transportation services, including buses, that carry more than 25 people. The official advised the community to increase their use of public transportation. 

The Deputy Head of the Operations Department of the Transport Bureau said that most of the #Code_One_taxis in the city are old and do not meet the city's taxi standards, so they should be removed from the transport system.

We asked him if Code One taxis would not displace people from their jobs when they are out of transport service. The head said that with government support, Code One taxis will be upgraded to metered taxis that can carry more than 25 people. 

Recently, the ban on taxis from the New Gebya Interchange and the New Market Interchange, the Garment Interchange and the Garment Interchange, and the Jemo Interchange and the Jemo Interchange is part of the policy and strategy, the head said, but mainly because taxis providing transportation services on long journeys in the city, such as the Jemo Garment and the New Gebya Interchange, were cutting off the route and charging more than the fare. 

According to the new transport policy and strategy, a fast bus route from Jemo to Qera will be launched in 2018, and we have heard from the official that after two years, Addis Ababa will have a fast bus transport service that is not connected to taxis.