Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - At Megenagna bus station in Addis Ababa blue white minibuses are milling around. They hunk, cut each other off and thus fight for customers. From every sliding door a wayala yells his destination and jumps aside nimbly when customers besiege his bus.
It’s an all too familiar scene. For many years now, the minibus has been the most popular way of transportation in Addis Ababa, but this is about to change, according to Tadesse Tessema, CEO of Holland Car. Soon his first so-called trailer bus will be in operation. The bus is able to carry about three hundred passengers, the equivalent of twenty minibuses. Addis Ababa will be an experimental garden. Thereafter, the main goal is to expand to other African countries. “It’s basically a can with eight wheels,” Tadesse says
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