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00:00As the population and the city of Kinshasa continue to grow and expand, the need for
00:06reliable public transport and roads in good condition becomes ever more pressing.
00:11Cable cars, urban railways and bypasses are all being planned to relieve congestion in
00:17the Congolese capital.
00:19In the meantime, the traffic jams are making life difficult for the 17 million people who
00:23live in the city.
00:25You have to be here well before 5am to get the transport and when you get to the Sukhumo
00:29stop there's a big traffic jam.
00:30We're all stuck, motorbike taxis, pedestrians not to mention the suffocating heat inside
00:36the bus.
00:37Another issue contributing to the city's traffic nightmare are unregulated prices.
00:42Kinshasa has no real public transport service.
00:46Almost 90% of passenger vehicles are privately owned.
00:50Depending on the flow of traffic, fares can range from 4,000 to 8,000 Congolese francs,
00:56which is around one and a half to three dollars.
01:00Transport fares are not fixed, everyone sets their own price.
01:03If there are a lot of people, the driver raises the price.
01:07To help reduce the amount of traffic in the Congolese capital, the government launched
01:11several projects that have not gone beyond the discussion stages.
01:15For example, a cable car was in the works to link together several dense neighbourhoods
01:19in the south of Kinshasa.
01:21But it's been years and there have been no developments.
01:25It's already been a while, two or three years, since we talked about this project.
01:31We haven't seen anything, nothing has been done.
01:34We're observing, we don't know if the project is real.
01:38In late June, President Felix Tshisekedi launched the construction of the Kinshasa Bypass in
01:44the Mitendi district of Mount Ngafula.
01:47Construction is estimated to take three years, at a cost of 300 million dollars.