Rural transport is a health hazard and very expensive

Rural transport is a health hazard and very expensive
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I was in one of the rural area counties over December holidays and l observed  that there is transport crisis. Border borders are mostly the ones used to transport people from interior and also where there are existing roads. Most people in the rural areas are served by probox vehicles and Peugeot boxboard vehicles. A place where three people should occupy a seat they squeeze in four people. ln front seat where one person sits, they place three people causing the driver not to access gears. ln towns we access better and clean transport and we take it for granted. ln the rural areas there is a danger of breaking your bones in the name of being squeezed to a sitting position. Dangers of people in the rural areas being deformed, being involved in accidents and contracting airborne diseases from one another is high as mothers and son-in-laws,daughters and father-in-laws are forced to sit very close to one another which is a taboo and against culture. It is a high time counties in the rural areas took the issue of transport with importance to guard against high cost of transport in the rural areas. Where  in town we pay 30/- shillings,in the rural areas we pay 100 or above. Rural transport is expensive and unreliable. If counties take this initiative of starting transport services, they will save rural folks on expenses and and there will be reliable transportation devoid of manipulation. Those in the rural  areas pay  more for transport than those who live in towns and while those in towns are working and have income. This is not fair.
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Veronica Onjoro
Mombasa

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