It was in this morning at 8: 30 am a Toyota Pick-up hit a light rail of Addis and caused a transport delay at the Salite Mihret area, next to Gurd Sholla, Yeka District, according to 94.3 Ahadu FM Station, a new channel.
After the delay, regular services have been expected to be resumed very soon.
A rail shuttle was operating, taking passengers on to Ayat from Tor Hailoch. Fortunately, there is no one got any hurt, yet some significant scratch on the pickup vehicle. The rail also has got a minor scratch.
That Toyota Pickup closed the railway for long hours that forced the rail to stop on its prior fermata.
Ahadu also reported on its social media post that, after the delay, Police Officers around helped the people to get nearby transport.
Snaking its way through some of the most congested avenues in Addis Abeba, Sub Saharan Africa’s maiden light rail – the Addis Abeba Light Rail Transit has set commenced operations almost nine months behind the original schedule in September 2015.
From the actual design of the railway, sandwiched between major highways with sharp-edged platforms and curves that hinder drivers’ visibility, to the challenge of integrating the train tracks with the city’s pedestrian traffic, it is feared that the much-anticipated service could worsen the city’s already dark traffic accident record.
During its inauguration, people complained the crossings are too narrow to accommodate the significant number of people passing by. Also, experts severely criticized the light railway transit is unfit to the City’s urban master plan along with the acute curves of the track.
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