New Taxi Park to be handed over to KCCA next month

By Samuel Balagadde

Contractors of the New Taxi Park are making final touches to the project before it is handed over to the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) next month.

The contractor, Stirling Civil Engineering, has finalised laying the stone base, the drainage system, concrete carpeting and tarmacking the surface.

KCCA spokesperson Peter Kauju said the contractor is expected to hand over the project soon, adding that the facility is still reserved for public transport vehicles.

Taxis operating in the park were last year relocated to privately-owned city parks to enable the construction works.

Yasin Ssematimba, the chairperson of the taxi park stage co-coordinating committee, said streamlining taxi parks will greatly minimise robberies in taxis with no permanent stages of operation.

He said they are conducting a registration exercise for all taxis and drivers operating in Kampala for security purposes.